GODFREY MILLER
1893-1964

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

GODFREY MILLER

1893-1964
Summer (1957-1959)

oil, pen and ink on canvas
signed 'Godfrey Miller' lower right
64.3 x 82.2 cm

Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Mr and Mrs George Rodan, Sydney
By descent
Private Collection, Sydney
Important Australian + International Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne, 30 November 2011, lot 3, illustrated
Private Collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

(Possibly) Godfrey Miller, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 7-19 July 1957, no. 3
Godfrey Miller Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 10 June - 17 July 1959
Easter Collection, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 6-25 May 1960, uncatalogued
Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, June - July 1961, no. 65 (label verso)
Godfrey Miller Memorial Exhibition, Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 16 February - 27 March 1965, no. 2
The Private Collector: A Loan Exhibition of Twenty Five Sydney Collections, Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 17-19 September 1965, no. 29
50 Years of the National School of Art. A Retrospective Exhibition of Major Artworks by Past Students and Staff of the National Art School, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, June 1974, no. 31
Fifty Years of the Macquarie Galleries: The Fourth Decade 1955-1965, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 28 May - 16 June 1975, no. 32
Godfrey Miller 1893-1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 March - 5 May 1996, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 May - 17 June 1996 (label verso)

Literature

John Ogburn, 'Godfrey Miller, Artist', The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 16 February 1965, p. 23
John Henshaw, Godfrey Miller, Darlinghurst Galleries, Sydney, 1965, plate 39, n.p. (illustrated)
Deborah Edwards, with contributions by John Henshaw and Ann Wookey, Godfrey Miller 1893-1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996, plate 168, pp. 76, 78 (illustrated), 124
Simon Pierse, Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950-1965: An Antipodean Summer, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, Surry, 2012, pp. 107-108