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Subiaco Museum > Records

DRAWINGS: 'BUTTER MAKER', 'METERS OVEN' AND 'SINGER SEWING MACHINE', PAM BRITTAIN

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Pam Brittain

1997

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Overview

Image: Three framed pencil and charcoal drawings (Butter Maker, Meters Oven and Singer Sewing Machine). These drawings hung in the Tom Dadour Community Centre for nearly twenty years.

Frame: Dark brown timber frame with black mount under glass.

Signature: Each image signed 'Pam Brittain 97'.

Historical information

Part of series of nine works that were hanging in the Tom Dadour Community Centre for possibly twenty years. Given to the Subiaco Museum when the Centre closed in 2017.

Drawings have been taken directly from the artists sketchbook.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2020.145.9

Item type

Material

Width

815 mm

Height or length

275 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Pam Brittain

Keywords

Food Consumption And Preparation

Tom Dadour Centre

Year

Statement of significance

One of a series of drawings by Pam Brittain that were hanging in the Tom Dadour Community Centre for nearly twenty years. Given to the Subiaco Museum in 2017 when the centre closed.

Aesthetic: Social: Condition: Provenance: Representativeness: Interpretive:

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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