Susan Dorothea White Bibliography

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HIGH STANDARD ART SHOW IN STURT PARK
By May Harding

Broken Hill artists showed about 200 pictures, many of which were of a standard comparable with works currently shown in capital cities, in Sturt Park for the second open air exhibition arranged by the Willyama Art Society on Sunday.

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John Gregory has ventured into large abstracts. In his well presented display, “Ned Kelly”, consisting mostly of rectangular shapes in cool colors on a warm ground and “Drum Kits” — yellow forms on rich stained glass effect ground, were successful. He included landscapes in oils and watercolors at which he is competent. Two “experiments” in gouache, chalk and colored inks were outstanding. These semi-abstracts, “Rocks at Sunrise” and “Foggy Night, Round Hill” are reminiscent of masterly examples of graphic art seen at the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Having put Broken Hill art on the map with his shows in Melbourne and Sydney and representation in the National Gallery of New South Wales, Sam Byrne continues to paint Silver City panoramas, mining, churches and the outback in his delightful manner. 

… Susan White, a talented and serious young artist studying in Sydney, has many admirers for her paintings. The strongly painted portrait of Mr. H. C. Cotton was outstanding and the still life of kitchen utensils called for praise. Two local landscapes showed well observed rocks, earth and vegetation and exquisitely painted flower studies — Sturt-pea and Swainsona spray — in watercolors completed a fine exhibit. Alan Cumpston, painting in the same style showed pictures of Mary Kathleen and Pinnacles that give promise.

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