Hazy morning, 1944 / by Herbert Badham
Hazy morning, 1944 / by Herbert Badham
Hazy morning, 1944 / by Herbert Badham
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1944
Call Numbers
ML 1514 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 305
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Physical Description
Contents
1 painting - 50 x 62.5 cm - oil on composition board
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
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Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
One oil painting on composition board depicting the rooftops, the built environment and domestic details of inner city Sydney in 1944. The tower of the Kings Cross Hotel is visible in the top right of the picture and lines of washing and chimney smoke are glimpsed throughout the composition. The elevated view looks east towards Woolloomooloo Bay an...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Hazy morning, 1944 / by Herbert Badham
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower left 'HBADHAM '44’.
Object History
From the estate of the artist, thence by descent.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Bonhams Australia, November 2018
Administrative / Biographical history
Herbert Badham (1899-1961) studied at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton, George Lambert and Henry Gibbons, and later taught at East Sydney Technical School. His preferred subjects were typical of Sydney’s 1930s and 1940s modernist artists, including beach scenes, everyday urban life and figure studies. In 1949 he published an important hist...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
ML 1514 , Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Recent Acquisitions, Room 1, North Wall, no. 305
Record Identifier
1wNrZpxn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wNrZpxn
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Reference code
9621486
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