The eruption, 1929 – 30
Dorrit Black
colour linocut on paper
27.0 x 20.5 cm (image)
28.0 x 23.0 cm (sheet)
numbered in margin upper right
Estate of the artist, Adelaide
Thence by descent
Helen Finlayson (née Black), Adelaide, 1951 [the artist's sister]
Margaret Michelmore (née Finlayson), Adelaide, a gift from the above
Estate of the above, Adelaide
Painting and Sculpture by A Group of Seven, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 26 March – 5 April 1930, cat. 8 (another example)
British Linocuts (Second Exhibition of British Lino–Cuts), Redfern Gallery, London, 23 July – 23 August 1930, cat. 24 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, Adelaide, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 34 (another example)
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat. 33 (as ‘Mt. Etna Erupting’, another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 52 (another example)
Colour Linocuts from the Grosvenor School, The Ward Gallery, Sydney, 26 March – 19 April 1980, cat. 43 (another example)
Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1992; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1992 – 1 March 1993; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 19 March – 16 May 1993; and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 19 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 5 (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)
The Story of Australian Printmaking: 1801 – 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 30 March – 3 June 2007 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 June – 8 September 2019 (another example)
Dangerously Modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890 – 1940, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 May – 7 September 2025, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 October 2025 – 1 February 2026 (another example)
Claude Flight letter to Dorrit Black, 11 June 1930
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.4, pl. 10, pp. 40 (illus., another example), 41, 131
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB6, pl. 32, pp. 43 (illus., another example), 152, 153 (illus., another example)
Hylton, J., Modern Australian Women: Paintings & Prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 11 (illus., another example), 121
Lock, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 152, 153 (illus., another example), 201 (illus., another example)
Grishin, S., Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2015, pl. 23.6, p. 234 (illus., another example)
O'Brien, P., 'Dorrit Black: The Eruption', in Coates, R., and Gory, S., eds., Eighty Years of SAM: The Collection, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria, 2017, pp. 92, 93 (another example)
Samuel, G., et al., Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2019, pp. 50, 71, 72, 120 (illus., another example)
Freak, E., (ed.) et. al., Dangerously Modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890 – 1940, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2025, pp. 252, 253 (illus., another example)