Primary Artist

Charles Meere (1890–1961)

Title

Empire Games. Sydney calls you ... Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations

Date made

1937

Place made

Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map

Category

Poster

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones [or plates]

Matrix size

101.6 x 63.2 cm (printed image)

Support

cream lithographic paper

Support size

101.6 x 63.2 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

no inscriptions

Subject description

Male athlete in shorts and singlet wearing spikes hurdling over the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

77341

Accession number

88.714

Accession method

Curator's allowance

Meeting

Meeting 11, 1987/88 (1988-06-28)

Provenance

Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 1988.

Credit line

Purchased from Gallery admission charges 1988

Copyright

With permission of Margaret Stephenson-Meere

Subject categories

Sydney Harbour Bridge | Australia, Sesquicentennial, 1938

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Meere, Charles. | (1890–1961) Australian | English | Male | artist