Out to sea

Rick Amor
Australia
1948

Out to sea
1991
etching, drypoint on paper
Place made
Cottles Bridge, Victoria
Medium
etching, drypoint on paper
Edition
artist's proof
State
vi/vi
Dimensions
14.5 x 19.4 cm (plate)
Credit line
Gift of Rick and Jan Frolich through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary Collectors 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Accession number
20155G139
Signature and date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Rick Amor '91 ".
Media category
Print
Collection area
Australian prints
Copyright
Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

  • Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic, 2016 - 2017

     

     

    This is a view of the mouth of the Kananook Creek, where it enters Port Philip Bay at Frankston. The subject is etched from memory, which may explain the mythical atmosphere of the scene. Motorised dinghies were common during Amor’s childhood, but this one, with its hooded boatman, inevitably calls to mind the mythical Charon, who ferried the dead to the underworld across the river Styx.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 2 December 2016 – 30 April 2017