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.
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Michael Shannon
Landscape of Sydney, 1969
oil on canvas
151.00 x 122.00
signed and dated l.l.
Provenance: Previously Ord Minnett (c 1970 to 1997)
Literature & references: City/Art, Heineman Educational Australia, 1978, illus p 42; (as Landscape of Sydney 144 x 122cm; and, collection of Ord Minnett).
In Shannons cityscapes of the 1950s an upward perspective tended to prevail. But his 1960 oil Urban Panorama looks out from an artificial height across the urban sprawl in a manner reminiscent of the isometric views in favour in the 19th century a viewpoint followed in other city paintings of 1961-2.
1968-9 saw a renewed commitment: Early morning, Melbourne, won the McCaughey Prize at the NGV in 1969, with its sweeping view of buildings clustered along the bayside shoreline; Early morning, Sydney (152 x 183) and its companion piece, the above Landscape of Sydney, both look south across the city rooftops from, it seems, one of the then new skyscrapers; however the latter with its narrower format includes two tall buildings in the middle ground which accentuate the vertical composition.
For Early morning, Sydney see
Morrison Cross Miller, McCaughey, Michael Shannon Australian Romantic Realist, retrospective exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2011, p. 87, and detail on front cover
Further works by the Artist
Construction: Thomson River Dam under Construction
Michael Shannon
1984
charcoal and pastel on paper, 69.00 x 49.00
Price: $5,000
Sunday Morning, Townsville
Michael Shannon
1970
oil on canvas, 74.50 x 101.00
Price: $16,500
Transport: Ansett Airlines first flight from Hamilton to Melbourne
Michael Shannon
1984
pastel on paper, 69.00 x 49.00
SOLD
Manufacturing: Carlton and United Brewery
Michael Shannon
1984
pastel and applied beer labels on paper, 73.50 x 53.00
SOLD
Construction: Thompson River Dam under Construction
Michael Shannon
1984
charcoal and pastel on paper, 69.00 x 49.00
(Old Colonial barn)
Michael Shannon
c. 1949
pen, ink and watercolour on paper, 23.00 x 27.00
The back lane
Michael Shannon
1946
pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 27.00 x 22.50
SOLD