Olive Cotton (1911 - 2003)

DRAINPIPES, 1937 (printed 1991)

silver gelatin photograph

31.5 x 29.0 cm (sight)
60.5 x 56.5 cm (frame)

signed, dated and inscribed with title and numbered below image: Drain Pipes 1937 / 1991 3/25 Olive Cotton
bears inscription on label verso: 229

Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney

Olive Cotton (1911-2003), Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 7 – 31 October 2013 (another example)
The Enduring Glance: 20th Century Australian Photography from the Corrigan Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 22 June – 28 July 2002
SOUL OF A CITY: Modernism and Sydney Photography 1930 to 1950, Delmar Gallery, Sydney, 17 May – 15 June 2014
Max and Olive: the photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and touring 2016 – 2017 (another example)

‘Out of the shadows – the photography of Olive Cotton’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 17 June 2016 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this photograph are held in the collection of the NGA, SLSA, and the NLA.