Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951)

Black swans, 1937

colour linocut on paper

23.5 x 32.5 cm (image)
31.5 x 37.0 cm (sheet)
42.0 x 51.0 cm (frame)

signed lower right with artist’s monogram
signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image

Joanne Priest, Adelaide
Private collection, Queensland, a gift from the above in the 1970s

Eighth Exhibition of British Lino-cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 26 May – 23 June 1937, cat. 9 (another example)
Contemporary Group, David Jones Gallery, Sydney, opened 1 July 1937, cat. 94 (another example)
Group Exhibition by South Australian Artists, Royal South Australian Society of Artists, Adelaide, 8 – 23 July 1937, cat. 44 (another example)
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 38 (another example)
Dorrit Black Retrospective, Royal South Australian Society of Artists, Adelaide, 25 October – 3 November 1945, cat. 58 (another example)
Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Artists, Adelaide, 10 – 21 May 1949, cat. 51 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 37 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

'National Gallery Purchases,' The Advertiser, Adelaide, 29 July 1937, p. 19 (another example)
'Dorrit Black's Unusual Show,' The News, Adelaide, 6 July 1938, p. 12 (another example)
Fuller, H. E., 'Honesty Of Purpose Marks Modern Art Show,' The Advertiser, Adelaide, 7 July 1938, p. 12 (another example)
Fuller, H. E., 'Miss Dorrit Black's Exhibition,' The Advertiser, Adelaide, 10 May 1949, p. 7 (another example)
George, E., 'Paintings displayed by Dorrit Black,' The Mail, Adelaide, 14 May 1949, p. 6 (another example)
Young, E., 'Contemporary Art Society Exhibition,' The Advertiser, Adelaide, 2 December 1951, p. 9 (another example)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia and MacMillan, Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.33, p. 132 (another example)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, United Kingdom, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB 36, p. 162 (illus., another example)
Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 88 (illus., another example), 204 (illus., another example)

Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide