Thea Proctor (1879 - 1966)

Bonnets, shawls, elegant parasols, c.1928

also known as Bonnets, shawls, gay parasols
woodcut on paper

28.0 x 24.5 cm (image)
36.0 x 28.0 cm (sheet)
50.5 x 42.0 cm (frame)

artist's monogram in image lower left: TP
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: "Bonnets, shawls, elegant parasols" No 47 / Floating are seen. / Thea Proctor

Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

Contemporary Group Exhibition, Farmer's Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 24 October – 4 November 1933 (another example)
Thea Proctor, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, opened 23 November 1938, cat. 33 (another example)

Butler, R. and Minchin, J., The prints: Thea Proctor, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 28, pp. 78, 79 (illus., another example)
Gooding, J., Thea Proctor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1982, cat. 13, p. 19 (illus., another example)
Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900-1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, pp. 160, 161, 164 (illus., another example)
Gerrish Nunn, P., Women artists and the decorative arts 1880-1935: the gender of ornament, Routledge, Aldershot, 2002, p. 82 (another example)

Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales