PAINTINGS: Oils
"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.
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.
MEDIA:Oils
Oils
53 Works to view
53 Works to view
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Cul-de-sac, 1972
oil with acrylic underpainting on composition board
76 x 122 cm
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Moving Trees, 1971
oil on composition board
86 x 183 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Boulders / Rock Composition, 1971
oil on composition board
61 x 91 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Estuary in Ochre, 1970
oil on composition board
90 x 121 cm
Private collection, UK
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Sunlit Trees, Lane Cove, 1968
oil on composition board
90 x 76 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Lane Cove River, Winter Light, 1968
oil on composition board
92 x 61 cm
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Paul, Soulful Young Boy, 1968
oil on composition board
30.5 x 25 cm
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East Coast Landscape, after Bushfire, 1967 circa
oil on composition board
90 x 121 cm
Private collection, UK
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Portrait of Baby Paul, with Hands, 1965 circa
peinture à l’essence on cardboard
60 x 40 cm
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Michaela Cuddling Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
91 x 61 cm
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Bush Flagstones, 1965
oil on composition board
109 x 91 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Outcrop, 1965
oil on composition board
122 x 183 cm
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Michaela Pointing to Baby Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
51 x 84 cm
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Babies: Michaela and Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
40.5 x 50.5 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Baby Paul, Hot Summer Night, 1965
oil on composition board
122 x 91 cm
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Baby Paul, 1965
oil on composition board
41 x 47 cm
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Baby Michaela, 1964
oil on home-prepared duck on composition board
57.5 x 46 (var)
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City Skyline, 1963
oil on composition board
22 x 61 cm
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Paddington Street by Night / Moonlight, 1963
oil on composition board
122 x 183 cm
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Sleaford Mere, Port Lincoln, 1962
oil on composition board
40 x 61 cm
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Inland Wilderness / Singing Silence, 1962
oil on composition board
59 x 129 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Desert Sunset, Line of Lode, Broken Hill / Evening Sky, 1962
oil on composition board
42 x 62 cm
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Perce (remaining fragment of destroyed painting), 1962
oil on composition board
81 x 29 cm
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Rosalind Hughes, 1962
oil on composition board
61 x 44.5 cm
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Brother Bill Reading, 1961 circa
oil on composition board
42 x 33.5 cm
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Dad (WRB White) under Tungsten Light, 1961
oil on composition board
48 x 42 cm
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Sunset: Salt Creek, Tumby Bay, South Australia, 1961
oil on composition board
41 x 58 cm
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H L (Les) Cotton, 1961
oil on composition board
58 x 48 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Wide Waterway, Outback Creek, 1961
oil on composition board
55 x 90 cm
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Beach Scrub, Port Lincoln / Pigface, 1961
oil on composition board
45.5 x 61 cm
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Hot Day, Ocean Pool, Fishery Bay, Port Lincoln, 1961
oil on composition board
48 x 61 cm
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Dry Creek Bed, Broken Hill, 1961
oil on composition board
43 x 53 cm
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Dad Working at Kitchen Table, 1961
oil on composition board
91 x 76 cm
Verso: Rocky landscape, 1960 (76 x 91 cm)
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Flick (Felicity Thompson), 1960 circa
oil on composition board
44.5 x 44 cm
Private collection, UK
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Rocky Landscape, 1960
oil on composition board
76 x 91 cm
(verso of Dad working at kitchen table, 1960, 91 x 76 cm)
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Ted Wearing Glasses, 1960
oil on composition board (saw-cuts on right side)
53.5 x 39.5 cm
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Stirling Vale Creek, Drought, 1960
oil on composition board
58 x 90 cm
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Stirling Vale Creek, 1960
oil on composition board
58 x 90 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Still Life at Julian Ashton Art School, 1960
oil on canvas board
56.5 x 43 cm
Private collection, UK
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The Pinnacles, 1960
oil on composition board
64 x 92 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Market Gardeners, Approaching Storm, Two Wells, Adelaide Plains, 1960
oil on composition board
42 x 50.5 cm
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Rocky Ridge, Scrub and Dry Grass, Overcast Afternoon, 1959
oil on composition board
45.5 x 61 cm
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Tree by Dry Creek Bed, 1959
oil on canvas board
37.7 x 45.3 cm
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Uncle Ted in Dressing Gown, Reading, 1959
oil on composition board
82 x 66 cm
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Sunlight on Quartz Rocks, Approaching Storm, 1959
oil on composition board
56 x 115 cm
Private Collection, Australia (exhibited: ‘Painters and Sculptors of Promise’ The Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 1959)
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Summit Rock, Hazy Light, 1959
oil on canvas-board
50 x 60.5 cm
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Brown Creek Gum and Saltbush, 1958
oil on canvas board
60.5 x 50 cm
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The Creek Gum (Umberumberka Creek), 1958
oil on canvas board
51 x 38 cm
Private collection, Australia
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Mine Shaft, Northern Outskirts, Broken Hill, 1958
oil on canvas board
38 x 50.5 cm
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Erosion / Outback Erosion / The Creek Bed , 1958
oil on canvas board
35 x 30 cm
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Saltbush and Creekbed, 1958
oil on composition board
47.5 x 51 cm
Private collection, Australia
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View of the Simpson's from Ivymeade: Gum and Horse , 1957
oil on canvas paper
22.5 x 18.5 cm
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Nine Mile Creek (tributary of Stephens Creek, Broken Hill), 1957
oil on canvas board
35 x 30 cm
PAINTINGS :
Oils
53 Works
PAINTINGS :
Oils
53 Works