c1940s-1950s. Ink and wash, signed lower right, titled in pencil with various publishing annotations in lower margin, 38.7 x 26.5cm. Soiling overall, crease and slight crinkles to margins. Caption in lower portion of image reads “Australia”, cancelled caption in upper portion of image reads “Russian Successes.” This work was most..... More

c1950s. Ink and wash, signed lower left, various publishing annotations in pencil in lower margin, 38.6 x 26.5cm. Soiling overall, crease and slight crinkles to margins. Captions in image read “Inflation” and “wage earner.”. More

c1950s. Ink and wash with coloured pencil in 12 panels, numbered “6-26” and signed in ink lower right, 36.5 x 58.4cm. Tears to upper edge, slight creases and minor stains overall. Comic strip about Fatty Finn and his father avoiding family commitments in which the father gets caught out. Fatty..... More

c1950s. Oil on board, titled and annotated “15 gns” in ink on frame verso, 22.8 x 27.7cm. Framed. More

c1950s. Carbon drawing, titled lower centre, 23.7 x 18cm (paper). Slight stains and indentation to upper portion of image, glue remnants verso. This was a proposed advertisement to be published in a University of Sydney theatre programme. J. Stanley Johnston was a prominent Sydney music publisher and retailer during the..... More

c1950. Two pencil drawings, one on tracing paper, both annotated “Goulburn” and initialled in pencil lower right, one captioned in ink verso, 34.5 x 24.6cm (approx. each). Slight stains and creases, old folds. Caption reads “Sketch for Goulburn feature, painted in new air-conditioned express trains. NSW Rly.” Sketches show the..... More

c1950s. Six drawings, four in pencil, one in ink, one in coloured pencil, five initialled and two captioned in ink or pencil, 15.5 x 12.4cm to 30.6 x 11cm. Foxing, slight creases. Captions include “The wool dance” and “Into the ‘shed’, off with the wool, release!” Four images show a...... More

c1950s. Colour pencil and graphite, signed lower right, 32.5 x 24.5cm. Creases to image edges, missing upper left corner. An avid practitioner of pantheism, “Norton had special reverence for the Great God Pan and regarded him as the Totality of All Being, as the true god of the world and..... More

c1950s. Oil on paper, “The studio of Murch” estate stamp lower right, 30.7 x 25.6cm. Old creases, crinkles, oil stain outline verso. Artists Lloyd Rees and Arthur Murch were members of the Society of Artists, which was an “influential Sydney-based group of progressive artists who staged annual exhibitions from 1895..... More

1952. Pencil drawing, signed, titled and dated lower left, 34 x 28cm. Slight foxing. This drawing was most likely a study for the illustrations in the book by Curtis, Broken Hill, Australia, a folio of drawings, which was published in 1952. More

1952. Pen and ink, captioned, dated and signed lower left, 16.1 x 25.2cm. Minor creases and foxing. Caption continues “The speaker tonight will be our great leader Rabindranath Tagore, who’s [sic] message is ‘transmitted’ throughout the world. He is introduced by Mrs Annie Bessant of India. Sketched at a Theosophical..... More

1953. Watercolour with ink, initialled, signed and dated in ink lower right, 32 x 23cm. Repaired tears upper right and lower left, stains and paper loss to edges. Framed. More

c1953. Crayon, 35.7 x 50.4cm. Slight stains, minor tears and creases to edges. Provenance: Close friend of the artist. More