Through the window, c.1927
Dorrit Black
oil on canvas on board
35.0 x 30.0 cm
signed lower right: Dorrit Black
bears inscription on labels attached verso: Through the Window
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
The Younger Group of Australian Artists, Anthony Horderns’ Art Gallery, Sydney, 1 – 16 March 1927, cat. 95
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. 10 (label attached verso)
Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 8 (label attached verso)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014
‘The Younger Group, Australian Artists’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 3 March 1927, p. 12
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. 0.21, pl. 53, pp. 16, 19 (illus.), 121
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 26, 30 (illus.), 189 (illus.)