Olive Cotton (1911 - 2003)

Glasses, 1937, printed 1995

silver gelatin photograph

28.0 x 20.5 cm (image)
33.0 x 25.5 cm (sheet)
48.0 x 40.0 cm (frame)

signed below image: Olive Cotton
inscribed with title and numbered verso: Glasses / 13/94

Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1995

Ten Years On, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, January 1986 (another example)
In a certain light: Clarice Beckett and Olive Cotton, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 8 March – 15 April 1995 (another example)
Olive Cotton: Photographs 1920s – 1990s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 October – 11 November 1995, cat. 11
Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 May – 2 July 2000; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 12 July – 19 September 2000 (another example)
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002, cat. 4 (another example)
Soft Shadows and Sharp Lines: Australian photography from Cazneaux to Dupain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 September – 17 November 2002 (another example)
Things: photographing the constructed world, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 24 November 2012 – 17 March 2013 (another example)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example)
Know My Name: Making it Modern, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 5 August – 8 October 2023 (another example)
Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 6 August – 9 November 2025, cat. 208 (another example)

Ennis, H., Olive Cotton, Photographer, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1995, p. 10 (illus., another example)
Ennis, H., Olive Cotton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, cat. 21, pp. 4, 5 (illus., another example), 16, 24
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art For a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, p. 153 (illus., another example)
Bullock, N., Cole, K., Hart, D., and Pitt, E., (eds), Know My Name, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2020, pp. 84 – 85
Harding, L., Man Ray and Max Dupain, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2025, cat. 208, pp. 201 (illus., another example), 234 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Library of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane