The First Supper 1988 acrylic on panel
120 x 240 cm by Susan Dorothea White

Paintings:

"Susan Dorothea White ... explores the most intimate experiences of her life, as well as more topical subjects, in meticulously limned paintings on wood panels. Her ability to examine unflinchingly such personal milestones as her surgery for a benign brain tumour with a dazed self-portrait in a vertiginously askew hospital setting results in some of the most emotionally jarring narrative imagery in recent art."

Gallery & Studio, New York (1998)

The artist has developed a technique using multiple washes of acrylic paint on plywood panels, often accentuating the wood grain to create texture through translucent glazes. Major paintings are developed through preliminary watercolour compositions and from numerous drawings and pen sketches. The artist favours watercolour for spontaneous work, flower and nature studies.

oils
53 Works to view
53 Works to view

  • Cul-de-sac 1972
    oil with acrylic underpainting on composition board
    76 x 122 cm
    P-1972-1
  • Moving Trees 1971
    oil on composition board
    86 x 183 cm
    P-1971-5
  • Rock Composition 1971
    aka Boulders
    oil on composition board
    61 x 91 cm
    P-1971-4
  • Estuary in Ochre 1970
    oil on composition board
    90 x 121 cm
    P-1970-1
  • Paul, Soulful Young Boy 1968
    oil on composition board
    30.5 x 25 cm
    P-1968-3
  • Sunlit Trees, Lane Cove 1968
    oil on composition board
    55.9 x 46 cm
    P-1968-2
  • Lane Cove River, Winter Light 1968
    oil on composition board
    92 x 61 cm
    P-1968-1
  • East Coast Landscape, after Bushfire 1967 circa
    oil on composition board
    90 x 121 cm
    P-1967-3
  • Portrait of Baby Paul, with Hands 1965 circa
    peinture à l’essence on cardboard
    60.5 x 40 cm
    P-1965-7
  • Bush Flagstones 1965
    oil on composition board
    109 x 91 cm (est.)
    P-1965-7
  • Outcrop 1965
    oil on composition board
    122 x 183 cm
    P-1965-6
  • Michaela Cuddling Paul 1965
    oil on composition board
    91.5 x 61 cm
    P-1965-5
  • Michaela Pointing to Baby Paul 1965
    oil on composition board
    51 x 84 cm
    P-1965-4
  • Babies: Michaela and Paul 1965
    oil on composition board
    40.5 x 50.5 cm
    P-1965-3
  • Baby Paul, Hot Summer Night 1965
    oil on composition board
    122 x 91 cm
    P-1965-2
  • Baby Paul 1965
    oil on composition board
    41 x 47 cm
    P-1965-1
  • Baby Michaela (3 portraits) 1964
    oil on home-prepared duck cotton glued to composition board
    57.5 x 46 cm (var) (top RHS cut out)
    P-1964
  • City Skyline 1963
    oil on composition board
    22 x 61 cm
    P-1963
  • Moonlight 1963
    aka Paddington Street by Night
    oil on composition board
    122 x 183 cm
    P-1963
  • Sleaford Mere, Port Lincoln 1962
    oil on composition board
    40 x 61 cm
    P-1962
  • Inland Wilderness / Singing Silence 1962
    oil on composition board
    59 x 129 cm
    P-1962
  • Evening Sky 1962
    aka Desert Sunset, Line of Lode, Broken Hill
    oil on composition board
    42 x 62 cm
    P-1962
  • Perce with his budgie 1962
    (remaining fragment of destroyed painting)
    oil on composition board
    81 x 29 cm
    P-1962
  • Rosalind Hughes 1962
    oil on reversed composition board
    61 x 44.5 cm
    P-1962
  • Brother Bill Reading 1961 circa
    oil on composition board
    42 x 33.5 cm
    P-1961 c
  • Dad (W.R.B. White) under Tungsten Light 1961
    oil on reversed composition board
    48 x 42 cm
    P-1961
  • Sunset (Salt Creek, Pt. Lincoln) 1961
    (Tumby Bay, South Australia)
    oil on composition board
    41 x 58 cm
    P-1961
  • H L (Les) Cotton 1961
    oil on reversed composition board
    58 x 48 cm
    P-1961
  • Wide Waterway, Outback Creek 1961
    oil on composition board
    55 x 90 cm
    P-1961
  • Beach Scrub, Port Lincoln 1961
    aka Pigface
    oil on reversed composition board
    45.5 x 61 cm
    P-1961
  • Hot Day, Ocean Pool 1961
    (Fishery Bay, Port Lincoln)
    oil on composition board
    48 x 61 cm
    P-1961
  • Dry Creek Bed, Broken Hill 1961
    oil on composition board
    43 x 53 cm
    P-1961
  • Dad Working at Kitchen Table 1961
    oil on composition board
    91 x 76 cm
    P-1961
  • Ted Wearing Glasses 1960
    oil on reversed composition board
    53.5 x 39.5 cm
    62.5 x 48.5 x 3 cm (frame)
    P-1960-3
  • The Pinnacles 1960
    aka The Pinnacles, Broken Hill
    oil on composition board
    64.2 x 92.1 cm
    P-1960-1
  • Flick (Felicity Thompson) 1960 circa
    oil on composition board
    44.5 x 44 cm
    P-1960 c
  • Rocky Landscape 1960
    (verso: Dad working at kitchen table)
    oil on reversed composition board
    76 x 91 cm
    P-1960
  • Stirling Vale Creek, Drought 1960
    oil on reversed composition board
    58 x 90 cm
    P-1960
  • Stirling Vale Creek 1960
    oil on composition board
    57.5 x 90 cm
    P-1960
  • Still Life at Julian Ashton Art School 1960
    oil on canvas board
    56.5 x 43 cm
    P-1960
  • Market Gardeners, Approaching Storm, Two Wells, Adelaide Plains 1960
    oil on reversed composition board
    42 x 50.5 cm, 45 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (frame)
    P-1960
  • Sunlight on Quartz Rocks, Approaching Storm 1959
    aka Quartzite
    oil on composition board
    56 x 115 cm
    P-1959-5
  • Uncle Ted in Dressing Gown, Reading 1959
    oil on composition board
    82 x 66 cm
    90.5 x 75 x 3 cm (frame)
    P-1959-4
  • Rocky Ridge, Scrub and Dry Grass, Overcast Afternoon 1959
    oil on reversed composition-board
    45.6 (rhs) x 53.3 (lhs) x 61.0 cm (not square)
    P-1959-3
  • Tree by Dry Creek Bed 1959
    oil on Windsor Series oilboard
    37.6 x 45.3 cm
    P-1959-2
  • Summit Rock, Hazy Light 1959
    oil on canvas board
    50.4 x 60.5 cm
    59.6 x 69.6 x 2 cm (frame)
    P-1959-1
  • Mine Shaft, Northern Outskirts, Broken Hill 1958
    oil on Atelier canvas board
    38 x 50.7 cm (irreg.)
    P-1958-5
  • The Creek Gum (Umberumberka Creek) 1958
    aka Gum
    oil on canvas board
    51 x 38 cm
    P-1958-4
  • Saltbush and Creekbed 1958
    oil on composition board
    47.6 x 50.9 cm
    P-1958-3
  • Brown Creek Gum and Saltbush 1958
    oil on board
    60.5 x 50 cm
    P-1958-2
  • The Creek Bed 1958
    aka Erosion / Outback Erosion / Sun Landscape
    oil on cardboard
    35.3 x 30.4 cm
    39.1 x 33.9 x 3 cm (frame)
    P-1958-1
  • Nine Mile Creek (tributary of Stephens Creek, Broken Hill) 1957
    oil
    35.3 x 30.4 cm (irreg.)
    P-1957-2
  • View of the Simpson's from Ivymeade: Gum and Horse 1957
    oil
    22.5 x 18.5 cm (LHS irreg.)
    P-1957-1

Paintings : oils 53 Works
Paintings : oils 53 Works


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