(Linear rhythm) was discovered on the verso of Ralph Balson’s Constructive painting, 1946.
Grace Crowley noted that she completed her first purely abstract paintings following Exhibition 1. However, besides Abstract with gold and silver ribbons and its partner work held in the AGNSW artist archive, this is the only other surviving abstract work by Crowley from the early 1940s. It is well acknowledged that Crowley destroyed many of her own works or gave them to Balson to repurpose. In 1944, Crowley exhibited a series of works titled Linear in a group show at Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, and it is likely this painting is from the same period.
