Ethleen Palmer | Kookaburra 1935
Kookaburra 1935
Linocut on Japanese tissue paper
Printed from 5 blocks
Printed Image: 13.3 x 11.5 cm
Signed and titled in pencil (lower margin)
This work is a preliminary linocut to the larger Kookaburra printed in 1936.
Her notes written on the accompanying sheet, state: “ This could be designed for 4 blocks, as it is, it would take 5”
Housed in a light timber frame
Excellent condition
Provenance: Estate of the artist from Beatrice Palmer
$8,800
Ethleen Palmer (1906- 1958)
BIO
Ethleen Palmer major contributor to the female print movement of the 1920s and 30s. Her contemporaries were Preston, Proctor, Spowers, Blackburn etc. Rather than imitating the style adopted by these iconic artists she created prints with a distinctly Japanese feel. Her ability to capture movement and nature in the Japanese style gave her the name “The Australian Hokusai”.
The Sydney Morning Herald in 1938 were so confident in her ability and talent that they called her “Australia’s leading Linocut artist” a big statement considering the other fantastic printmakers of the period.
An talented and often overlooked Australian artist.
