'7 Designers' exhibition catalogue
Object No. 89/735-10/2
'7 Designers' was an important early Australian design exhibition held in the David Jones gallery, Sydney from 30 September - 15 October, 1948 (1). It included displays of 'pottery, advertising and industrial design, furniture, costume, ornaments, paintings, fabrics and silverware' by James Linton, Frances Burke, Gordon Andrews, Steven Kalmar, Richards and Buchanan, Allan Lowe and Professor George Korody. The catalogue and invitation were designed by Gordon Andrews who designed numerous David Jones art gallery catalogues during the late 1940s. Anne-Marie van de Ven, Curator, June 2013 (1) Bruce Ramage, A gallery within a Department Store - Origins and development of David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, Fine Arts IV Dissertation, University of Sydney, 1982
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Summary
Object Statement
Exhibition catalogue, '7 designers / David Jones' Art Gallery', paper, designed by Gordon Andrews, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1948
Physical Description
Exhibition catalogue, '7 designers', paper, catalogue designed by Gordon Andrews, Sydney, New South Wales, 1948, listing the names of the seven participating designers James Linton, Frances Burke, Gordon Andrews, [Steven] Kalmar, Richards and Buchanan, Allan Lowe and Professor George Korody. The catalogue is formed with 6 pages between a cardboard cover. All are folded in half and stapled. The cover is grey cardboard printed in white with '7 designers / David Jones' Gallery'. Circles have been cut our of the cover to reveal the page beneath. The page beneath is printed in red with a design which places a white hand to align with the cut out circle in the cover above. the catalogue
DIMENSIONS
Height
115 mm
Width
137 mm
HISTORY
Notes
Note - work in this catalogue by James Linton is by James A B Linton not JWR Linton, his father.
SOURCE
Acquisition Date
22 August 1989
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