Spondee book SB IV
(1959-1962)
Medium
artist's book: pen and ink, collage of printed clippings, yellow paper cover, stapled binding
Measurements
25.4 × 19.0 × 0.3 cm (closed)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Robert Rooney, 2023
© Estate of Robert Rooney
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Information exchange: Robert Rooney and Roger Cutforth
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Ross Coulter: Audience
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John Kaldor’s early Art Projects and the NGV
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The gallery of air
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Video art at the National Gallery of Victoria: 1973–78
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Fragile memories: Keith Haring and the Water Window Mural at the National Gallery of Victoria
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Index 1945–2010
Exhibition
Good Looking
Exhibition
Endless Present
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Collingwood
Pam HALLANDAL
Girl with glass
Peter ELLIS
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Initiation
Reko Rennie
Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
Robert DOWLING
House
Gareth SANSOM
The turkey feather
Peter ELLIS
Telepathic
Peter ELLIS
Collins St, 5p.m.
John BRACK
Kandakidj (Antilopine kangaroo)
Curly Bardkadubbu
Le Vagabond
Peter ELLIS
Black horse, tiny bird
Jenny WATSON
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Insect
Peter ELLIS
Snake attack
Peter ELLIS
Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales
Margaret PRESTON
OK TA TA
Gareth SANSOM
The captain and his bunnies
Rew HANKS
Bosch study #1
Jon CATTAPAN
Bosch study #3
Jon CATTAPAN
Forest
Peter ELLIS
Bosch study #4
Jon CATTAPAN
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
Home again
Frederick McCUBBIN
Cahill Expressway
Jeffrey SMART
Dog chewing
Peter ELLIS
Man absorbed in landscape
John OLSEN
(A Moorish doorway)
Tom ROBERTS