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
(Untitled – Three figures with two sets of grids)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1960
etching on paper, 2nd proof, 20.50 x 30.00
(Untitled - Two winking figures)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1960
etching on paper, 15.50 x 17.50
SOLD
(Untitled - Eight Heads)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1960
etching on paper, 15 x 17.5 cm, 15.00 x 17.00
Let all queues reverse / Coffin back to the Hearse
Edwin Tanner
1960 - 1969
oil, PVA and sand on board, 110.00 x 182.00
(Study for The Public Servant - office interior with milk bottles)
Edwin Tanner
c. 1953
oil on canvas, 66.00 x 61.00
SOLD
The Engineer's Workshop (Preliminary Compositional Study)
Edwin Tanner
1957
pencil and ink on primed linen, 91.00 x 122.00
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.