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Calendulas c.1936-37

Artwork Calendulas this artwork made of Watercolour and gouache over pencil on wove paper on cardboard, created in 1936-01-01
Accession No.
1:0220
Date Created
c.1936-37
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
48 x 45.8cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour and gouache over pencil on wove paper on cardboard
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Maria Theresa Treweeke 1937

Lahey recommended H Barret Carpenter's text Suggestions for the Study of Colour (1915) to her students. Carpenter's exercises established harmony by a judicious blending of colours, whereas Lahey's own works were brilliant in their intensity. However, there is a clear connection between Lahey's works and Carpenter's recommendations for achieving the effect of shadows by using colours 'in their natural order', meaning their increasing intensity. In Calendulas, for example, Lahey uses intense shades of orange to create the effect of a shadow on the yellow flower.
 

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Works installed for 'Under a Modern Sun', Gallery 4, QAG, August 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA

'Under a Modern Sun'

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