Photoprints of Byram Mansell and his work
Photoprints of Byram Mansell and his work
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1939-ca.1964
Call Numbers
PXE 777
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures, Photographs and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 89 loose - 67 in 3 albums constructed by the artist ; 38.5 x 30.4 cm or smaller - 156 silver gelatin photoprints
Drawings - 47.8 x 30 cm - 2 watercolour and pencil sketches on 1 sheet
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Series
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Restricted
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1-3. Photoprints of paintings for Winter Garden Theatre, Brisbane, 1939, with clipping from Courier Mail 15 December 1939
4-12. Photoprints c. 1949 of: decorative panels incorporating Aboriginal motifs based on 'records from Australian & American Anthropological Expedition'; Mansell 'digging earth colours for his painting'; Mansell in his stu...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Photoprints of Byram Mansell and his work
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Many of the sources for Mansell's designs can be found in Charles P. Mountford "Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arhhem Land - vol.1 Art, Myth and Symbolism", 1956 : Mitchell Library reference 983.8/2
Signature / Inscriptions
Most of the photoprints have been inscribed - some by Mansell, but most very broadly in a later hand
Contextual Information
Source
Presented Apr 1997
Administrative / Biographical history
For an article about Bryam Mansell and his work see "People", 31 January 1951, p.21-24 : Mitchell Library reference MDQA920.09/2
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 777
Record Identifier
1kVEvKzn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1kVEvKzn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
146570
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