Helen Ogilvie (1902 - 1993)

Chooks in the straw, c.1932

colour linocut on paper

15.0 x 20.5 cm (image)
37.0 x 42.0 cm (frame)

signed and numbered below image

Private collection, New South Wales
Menzies, Sydney, 24 September 2014, lot 411
Private collection, Adelaide

Melbourne woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, opened 2 August 1981, and touring nationally (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 September – 5 October 1992, and touring regionally (another example)
Modern Australia Women: Paintings and Prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 November 2000 – 25 February 2001, then touring to: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney and Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria (another example)
Country life: animals in the rural idyll, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, New South Wales, 1 October – 27 November 2005 (another example)

Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 15, 47 (illus., another example)
Butler, R. and Deutscher, C., A survey of Australian relief prints 1900–1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, pl. 123, p. 64 (illus., another example)
Hylton, J., Modern Australian women: paintings & prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 67 (illus., another example), 124

Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria