Woodside pastoral

Hans Heysen
Australia
8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968

Woodside pastoral
c 1920
charcoal, pencil, white chalk on paper mounted on cardboard
Place made
Hahndorf, South Australia
Medium
charcoal, pencil, white chalk on paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions
29.6 x 32.4 cm (cardboard)
Credit line
Bequest of the artist 1971
Accession number
711HH1143
Media category
Drawing
Collection area
Australian drawings
Copyright
© Chris Heysen
Image credit
Photo: Stewart Adams

  • WALL LABEL: Hans Heysen: The Creative Journey, 1992

     

    This composition study still has the cotton thread grid on it which Heysen used as a guide for enlargement.  He pasted many of his compositional studies onto cardboard so that he could use this method of gridding up.  He favoured this method more than drawing lines on the compositional study, as the thread could later be removed without marking the work.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Hans Heysen: The creative journey

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 28 August 1992 – 10 January 1993
    Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, 19 June 1993 – 1 August 1993
    Newcastle Art Gallery, 15 October 1993 – 28 November 1993
    Art Gallery of Western Australia, 12 December 1993 – 26 January 1994
    Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 17 February 1994 – 27 March 1994
    Moree Plains Art Gallery, 9 April 1994 – 22 May 1994
    Riddoch Art Gallery, 3 June 1994 – 17 July 1994