Previously The Estate of Pro Hart, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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Edwin Tanner
Explorer, 1960
oil on composition board
106.50 x 122.00
signed and dated lower left: EDWIN TANNER. 1960
label verso: EXPLORER (followed by artist's address)
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Earth, Sea and Sky, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 26 March - 9 April, 2009, no 71
Literature & references:
See Barrie Reid, Maker and Signmaker — some aspects of the art of Edwin Tanner, Art and Australia, Vol 9, No 3, Dec 1971, p 221-2 for discussion of a related work in the series — Lasseter still digging - another painting on the theme of the desert and early exploration. “The bones in Lassiter are the last traces of the prospector-painter as he disappears in the desert of everyday reality.” (op cit)
Further works by the Artist
The Electrical Engineer's Family
Edwin Tanner
1956
oil on canvas on composition board, 86.00 x 95.00
Positive and Negative - Construction No. 53
Edwin Tanner
1966
PVA, steel mesh and copper on board, 137.00 x 120.00
"I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable" but wholly devoid of fish
Edwin Tanner
1972
pastel on paper, 76.00 x 56.00
SOLD
(Untitled - Emigration Series)
Edwin Tanner
1970 - 1980
pastel on paper, 44.50 x 50.50
SOLD
(Untitled - Study for an Astrological Mural)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1967
Pencil and ink on paper, 49.50 x 64.00
SOLD
(Untitled – Interior, study for a mural)
Edwin Tanner
1967
pencil and ink on grey paper, 49.50 x 64.50
SOLD
In thee we trust. ‘A’ Men
Edwin Tanner
1967
pen, ink, charcoal and gouache on paper, 76.00 x 55.00
SOLD
"I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable" but wholly devoid of fish
Edwin Tanner
1972
pastel on paper, 76.00 x 56.00
SOLD
A religious drawing on the finest paper money can buy / the paper is french [therefore] this is a french letter by an honest engineer
Edwin Tanner
1971
pastel on paper, 50.00 x 65.00
SOLD
Home is where one starts from / jereckon?
Edwin Tanner
c. 1967
pastel on buff paper, 65.00 x 49.50
SOLD
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.