Hans Heysen's art materials: an investigation into suppliers, knowledge and choice

• Autores: Rosemary Diana Heysen, Nicole Andrea Tse
• Localización: Making and Transforming Art: Technology and Interpretation / Hèléne Dubois (ed. lit.), Joyce H. Townsend (ed. lit.), Jilleen Nadolny (ed. lit.), Sigrid Eyb-Green (ed. lit.), Sylvie Neven (ed. lit.), Stefanos Kroustallis (ed. lit.), 2014, ISBN 9781909492165, págs. 109-116
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Cedars, belonging to the estate of the renowned Australian landscape painter Hans Heysen (1877-1968), in the Adelaide Foothills, South Australia, was transformed into a museum in the early 1990s. Consisting of the artist's home, studio and personal collections, it has provided a rich source for research into the artist's sources of supplies, his technical knowledge and choice of material. During his lifetime, he maintained meticulous financial receipts, invoices and correspondence, and the collection includes his notebooks, trade directories and catalogues, and a significant study collection of related works and art materials. This evidence makes for a better understanding of Heysen's technical practise, the making of his work of art and the merchandishing, distribution and uptake of art materials in the British colony of South Australia. Previously, very little was known of the history of trading in art materials in Adelaide. The use of complementary written and object-based sources served to identify both patterns in Heysen's purchases of artists' materials and his preferred suppliers of materials. Between 1898 and 1918, there were no businesses trading exclusively in artists' materials in South Australia, so Heysen bought materials through hardware and building suppliers, stationers and music sellers. Study of financial records along with exhibition catalogues and trade directories together with remaining artists' materials in Heysen studio confirmed the predominant presence of British manufactured artists' materials that had been suspected. Suppliers advertising in exhibition catalogues indicate that Winsor & Newton was the principal brand of paints available in Adelaide.