The Magic Pudding (lithograph)
© Susan Dorothea White
The Magic Pudding (lithograph) 1978lithograph (9 colours)
71 x 51 cm (printed image); 80.5 x 60.5 cm (sheet)
edition of 35, plus 5 artist’s proofs (40 impressions)
Bruce Hall collection, Australian National University, Canberra; Westmead Hospital collection, Sydney, gift of the artist, 1979 (ed. 5/35)
Artist's Statement:
Inspired by my son Stephen at age 9 when he was reading The Magic Pudding, a classic children’s story by the Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Stephen’s imagination is stimulated by the story of a cantankerous pudding, a “cut-an'-come-again Puddin'” that wants to be eaten so it can keep coming back as different flavours. The composition revolves around five varied viewpoints of the child, with pages turning as the story progresses: "It's a cut-an'-come-again Puddin'," said Sam