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The painter's mother

Eric WILSON
The painter's mother
 (1944)

Medium
oil on plywood

Measurements
145.1 × 79.5 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1961

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales

Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: (line) / THE Painter's / Mother / (line) / ERIC WILSON / (line)

Accession Number
825-5

Department
Australian Painting

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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Portraits

Subjects (specific)
black (colour) elderly eyeglasses mothers single-sitter portraits women (female humans)

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Essay
The lost art of Federation: Australia’s quest for modernism

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