Thea Proctor (1879 - 1966)

THE SWING, 1926

hand-coloured woodcut

24.5 x 24.5 cm (image)
26.0 x 25.0 cm (sheet)
43.5 x 40.5 cm (frame)

edition: 19 of unspecified edition
monogramed in image lower right: TP
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title in margin: The Swing No 19 Thea Proctor 1926

Private collection, Victoria
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in December 1980

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 41 (another example)
Exhibition of Fan Designs, Paintings on Silk, Watercolours, Drawings and Woodcuts by Thea Proctor, Argonaut Gallery, Adelaide, 3 – 18 October 1929, cat. 52 (another example)
Tribute to Thea Proctor, Wales House Gallery, Sydney, 17 July – 9 August 1963, cat. 21 (another example)
Project 39 – Women’s Imprint, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 – 31 October 1982 (another example)
Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 30 April – 30 May 1987, cat. 141a (another example)
Australian Art: 1790s – 1970s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 24 November – 9 December 1988, cat. 44 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)
Spring Exhibition, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 10 – 24 September 1981, cat. 93 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 82, another example)

Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s – 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 12, 38 (illus., another example)
Deutscher, C., Minchin, J. and Butler, R., Thea Proctor: The Prints, Resolution Press, Sydney, 1980, cat. 16, p. 54 – 55 (illus., another example)
Gooding, J., Thea Proctor, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1982, pp. 2, 9, (illus., another example), 12
Eagle, M. and Jones, J., A Story of Australian Painting, Macmillan, Sydney, 1994, pl. 50, pp. 144, 145 (illus., another example)
Topliss, H., Modernism and Feminism Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996, pp. 154, 155 (another example)
Elliot, B. and Helland, J. (eds), Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament, Aldershot, Burlington, 2002, pp. 79, 80 (another example)
Sayer, A., Humphries, B., and Engledow, S., The World of Thea Proctor, Craftsman House, Sydney, p. 11 (another example)
Butler, R., Printed: Images by Australian artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, pp. 131, 166 (illus., another example)

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