c1932. Pencil drawing, titled and signed in pencil below image, 20.5 x 17.9cm. Pinholes, soiling and foxing to margins, slight stains to upper and lower portions of image. This drawing was most likely a study for an etching for the 1932 publication Hobart: Eight etchings in facsimile by Charles Robinson..... More

1933. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated in ink lower right, titled in pencil below image, 35.4 x 19.6cm. Minor stains to image, pinholes, tears and stains to margins. Under “Personals” in the Sydney Morning Herald on 29 June 1936 a classified reads “Mr H. Neville Barker, an artist, who..... More

1933. Sanguine drawing, titled, signed and dated lower right, 36.7 x 56.7cm (paper). Pinholes, repaired tears, creases and missing portions, slight stains to edges. Laid down on acid-free tissue. In 1933, Arthur Murch accompanied a professor of physiology, H. Whitridge Davies, on a scientific expedition to Central Australia as a...... More

1934. Watercolour, signed and dated in pencil lower right, signed and titled in pencil verso, 38.6 x 52.4cm. Pinholes to edges, slight mount burn. More

1935. Pencil drawing, signed and dated in pencil lower left, 33.9 x 41.6cm. Minor foxing, soiling and crinkles overall. More

c1890s & 1935. Plaster relief portrait with hand-painted border, and watercolour with pencil, plaster relief titled “Sir Henry Parkes” in ink verso, watercolour initialled “E.H.B.” and dated “1935” in pencil lower right with caption in ink below image, 23cm (plaster diameter) and 15.8 x 11.3cm (watercolour). Slight stains and foxing..... More

1936. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, titled and signed in pencil on stretcher verso, 64.5 x 44.5cm. Minor scuffing and perforations lower right. Framed. Provenance: Dundas and Thornhill estate. Painter and teacher at the National Art School for almost forty years, Thornhill was the second wife of..... More

1937. Pencil with watercolour, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 25.5 x 36.6cm. Slight old mount burn. More

c1938. Three sets of comic strips, each consisting of four panels on two sheets of paper, ink and wash with white gouache, all signed or initialled in image, one titled in pencil “Tubsie and Big Boy”, 16.7 x 33.7cm (approx. each sheet). Slight soiling and foxing to most, creases and..... More

c1939. Oil on textured paper, signed lower right, cancelled correspondence in ink verso, 16 x 11.2cm. Paper loss to image centre right, crease lower left, slight foxing, minor tears and missing portions to upper edge. Melbourne painter and printmaker Oswald Hall was the son of L. Bernard Hall, a prominent..... More

c1939. Watercolour with pencil, signed in ink lower right, titled in ink verso, 26.1 x 36.4cm. Stains to upper portion of image. More

1939. Pencil sketch, titled, dated (twice), signed and captioned above and below image, 19.8 x 24.3cm. Creases, slight foxing. Framed. Caption reads “We don’t know anything about art! But! We do know what people like!” Provenance: Bloomfield Galleries. Most likely a study for Hinder’s 1939 lithograph titled “Archibald Prize [AGNSW].”..... More

1939. Two pencil drawings, one captioned “board rider”, both initialled and dated lower right, 22.5 x 11.5cm and 16 x 24cm. Slight foxing. More