Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951)

The leg action conductor, c.1935

linocut on paper

15.0 x 9.5 cm (image)
16.5 x 12.0 cm (sheet)

signed in image lower right with artist’s initials

Estate of the artist, Adelaide
Thence by descent
Helen Finlayson (née Black), Adelaide, 1951 [the artist’s sister]
Margaret Michelmore (née Finlayson), Adelaide, a gift from the above
Private collection, Adelaide, a gift from the above

The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 12A (another example)
Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 19 (another example, as 'The Conductor')
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

A Quarterly of Art and Letters, Manuscripts no. 12, Melbourne, February 1935, p. 51 (illus., another example)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.38, p. 133 (illus., another example, as 'The Conductor')
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB29, p. 160 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 204 (illus., another example)

Another example from this edition is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide