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Venetian blinds c.1946-51

Artwork Venetian blinds this artwork made of Watercolour over pencil on smooth wove paper, created in 1946-01-01
Accession No.
1:0627a
Date Created
c.1946-51
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
42.5 x 52.3cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour over pencil on smooth wove paper
Credit Line
Purchased 1954

Acquired from WG Grant’s 1954 Queensland National Art Gallery retrospective exhibition, this watercolour shows the vista across neighbouring properties from the upstairs veranda of the Grants’ house ‘Bimbimbie’ in Nundah, a northern suburb of Brisbane. The view is taken from the large open space on the second floor, which was Grant’s studio. Despite the apparent freedom of its execution, the work is tightly structured, relying on a grid of verticals and varying diagonals.

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WG Grant: Venetian blinds

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

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

'Under a Modern Sun'

Aug 2025 - Jan 2026

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