The Estate of Edwin Tanner
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Edwin Tanner
The Electrical Engineer's Family, 1956
oil on canvas on composition board
86.00 x 95.00
signed and dated 'Edwin Tanner '56' u.r.
Provenance:
Exhibited:
Edwin Tanner: Mathematical Expressionist, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 12 May - 15 July, 2018, not numbered
Literature & references:
Anthony Fitzpatrick, Edwin Tanner: Mathematical Expressionist, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2018, exhibition catalogue, illus p. 49:
“From the mid-1950s, Tanner also worked through a series of highly schematic compositions which furthered his satirical campaign against regimentation and conformism…in the painting The Electrical Engineer’s Family (1956)… Tanner employs the format of a typical electronic circuit diagram to propose that human behaviour and relationships are hardwired in strict, organisational structures. As the title suggests, the symbols of the various tubes and transistors are to be read as familial faces, here reduced to the role of sending and receiving signals; the input and output of information.” (Fitzpatrick, op. cit., pp 11-13)
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.