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Details
- Other Title
- Fox Terrior [A Catalogue of Australian Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1953, pg.73]
- Date
- 1910
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 24.0 cm board; 50.5 x 41.9 x 4.2 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, brown oil "DOUGLAS FRY/ 1910".
- Credit
- Gift of Howard Hinton 1915
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 592
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Douglas Fry
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About
Artist Douglas Fry was a keen hunter, described by a contemporary as ‘a tall, lean, monosyllabic Englishman who had an intensely conservative mind and a pronounced Oxford accent, and looked as if he had been poured into his riding pants and boots (which he always wore)’.
Fry was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, in 1872 and studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris. When he arrived in Australia in 1899 he initially earned his living doing commercial work, first in Melbourne and then in Sydney. In Sydney he showed regularly with the Society of Artists and in 1908 his painting Mountain King was purchased by the National Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Among his contemporaries Fry was considered a skilled animal painter. He was a keen horseman and is said to have taught Norman Lindsay to ride. He also shared a love for terriers with Lindsay, titling this work, of a Parson Russell Terrier, 'My best friend'. The painting was presented to the Art Gallery of New South Wales by the important art collector Howard Hinton in 1915, initiating a series of gifts which enriched the collection by 150 works. Fry died of pneumonia in 1911, at the young age of 39. -
Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938
Howard Hinton memorial exhibition (1948), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1948–30 Apr 1948
Best in Show, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 09 Apr 2016–03 Jul 2016
The Lady and the Unicorn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Feb 2018–24 Jun 2018
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Lionel Lindsay, Howard Hinton memorial exhibition, 'Howard Hinton, OBE', pg. 2-3, Sydney, 1948, 4. cat.no. 2
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Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. not paginated, cat.no. 103 [Gallery No. 2]
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Steven Miller, Dogs in Australian art, 'Parson russell terrier', pg. 150-151, Kent Town, 2012, 150, 151 (colour illus.).
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