Full title: Item 01: Portrait of Florence Rodway, 1910 / Norman Carter

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Date: 1910.

Call Numbers: ML 339, Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, West Wall, no. 242

Record Identifier: 9qoQJ8p1

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Formats: Pictures, Paintings

Contents: 1 painting - 36 1/8 x 24 in. - oil on canvas

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Notes: This three-quarter portrait shows signs of having been cut down. A full length painting of Florence Rodway by Norman Carter, titled `A Low-toned Harmony', was awarded the Bronze Medal, Salon des Artistes Francais, Paris, 1913. Gestural brushstrokes, lighting and shading, appear to be similar in the three-quarter work, described here, and in the full length portrait, `A Low-toned Harmony' reproduced in The Salon (1913). `A Low-toned Harmony' was exhibited in Tho Royal Art Society's thirty-first annual exhibition in August 1910. In the Sydney Morning Herald, the sitter, Florence Rodway, is described as wearing `a dark mauve walking costume' with one `gauntleted hand resting at arm's length on the top of her parasol ...' Reference: Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 1910, p. 6 The current location of `A Low-toned Harmony' is not known. It is possible that this three quarter portrait has been cut down from the original full length portrait, `A Low-toned Harmony', possibly by the artist himself before presenting it to the Library collection in 1962. A reproduction and description of `A Low-toned Harmony' is found in: `Norman Carter, painter', by Leslie Beer, in The Salon : being the journal of the Institute of Architects of New South Wales; volume 2, number 4, November 1913, pp. 240-246 Copy Print : ML 339 Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room Digital order no:Album ID : 888233

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MMS ID: 110334599