Pictorialism to Modernism
Australian Photographers from the 20th Century

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William H. Moffitt (1888-1948)
A Sydney solicitor who took up photography about 1920, Moffitt joined the Sydney Camera Club in 1927. He experimented with paper negatives in the 1930s, producing landscape bromoils, which have a distinctive graphic style. Always an advocate for pictorial photography, he wrote an article for the Australasian Photo-Review in 1947 defending the techniques used in pictorial photography.

134 Dull Morning - Port Macquarie
1927. Bromoil, titled in mar-gin below, signed and dated in pencil on image, 15.3 x 25.8cm. JLG2717
Provenance: Moffitt estate.

 $1,650
135 Landscape - Catherine Hill Bay
(April 1927), 1927. Bromoil, titled, dated and signed and dated below in margin, 6.4 x 24.2cm. JLG2723
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$1,300
136 A Corner of the Yard
1929. Bromoil, titled below in margin, signed and dated in pencil on image, 13.5 x 15.8cm. JLG1321
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$990
137 Precincts of Wynyard
1/3/32, 1932. Bromoil, titled and dated below in margin, 15.9 x 21.7cm. JLG2716
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$1,650
138 A Pathway through the Bush
1932. Bromoil, titled, signed and dated below in margin, 20.4 x 27.2cm. JLG1639
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$1,650
139 A Richmond Farm
1934. Bromoil, titled, signed and dated below in margin, 16.3 x 28.7cm. JLG1636
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
 $1,350
140 Rotting Hulks
(Hunter Estuary), 1937. Bromoil, titled below in margin, signed and dated on image, 14.7 x 23.4cm. JLG3461
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$1,300
141 Landscape, Blue Mountains
Sunny afternoon., 1938. Bromoil, signed and dated on image, titled below in margin, 19.2 x 27.8cm. JLG1641
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
 $1,650
142 Landscape, Katoomba
1938. Bromoil, titled below in margin, signed and dated on image, 21.4 x 14.8cm. JLG1638
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$1,650
143 Closing Time - Summer Afternoon
1940. Bromoil, titled, signed and dated in pencil on image, 12 x 18.4cm.
JLG1322
Provenance: Moffitt estate. View of the front steps of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
 $1,650
144 From a Window of the...
..."Great Northern", Newcastle, Nov 1940, 1940. Bromoil, titled and dated below in margin, 7.5 x 10.7cm. JLG2719
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
 $990
145 By the River Mungabaruna
Albury, 1940s. Toned silver gelatin print, titled and signed below in margin, 8.9 x 13cm. JLG2721
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$660
146 Tarana
(May 1943), 1943. Bromoil, titled, dated, signed and dated below in margin, 8.8 x 12.9cm. JLG2720
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
$660
147 The Church, Shellharbour
(1946), 1946. Bromoil, titled, dated and signed below in margin, 9.7 x 13.2cm. JLG2718
Provenance: Moffitt estate.
 $990