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[Joe Loewenstein]

Night Fall in the Ti-Tree, by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague           39475 
  [Ill.: Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague]
  [Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague (born Melbourne) met at the National
Gallery School in the late 1890s. Their book is the earliest known example
of colour relief printing in Australia, and a very early example of the
influence of Japanese woodblock techniques on Australian printmaking.
Teague studied painting in Brussels from 1890-93 at the Atelier
Blanc-Garin, and experimented with printmaking at Hubert Herkomer's school
in England, which she attended in 1894. She returned to Australia in 1895.
'Night fall in the ti-tree' is a story about rabbits, set in the
Australian bush. The Japanese influence on it is obvious, especially in
printing and format, similar to Japanese children's crepe-books of the
1890s, and is reinforced by the design of the book, where the images lead
from one page to the next, like a frieze. An early version of the book was
hand-printed by Teague in Melbourne in 1905; another edition for the
English market was published in London by Elkin Mathews in 1906. The book
was exhibited in the 1905 Victorian Artists Society Exhibition, Melbourne
and the Federal Art Exhibition in the same year. In 1907 it won an award
at the First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work, Melbourne. (from
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/250.1983/)]
  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/4/7/39475 ]
  [Files: 39475.txt; 39475-h.htm; ]
  [Clearance: 20051007111123rede]

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Thanks, 

Joe Loewenstein