In the mid 1930s, John Fairfax & Sons Ltd acquired both The Home magazine and Art in Australia, which had established itself as the leading publication for modern and Australian art. The following is an excerpt from a review published anonymously in the August 1940 edition. 'Although he held his first one-man show little more than ten years ago, Adrian Lawlor has a rightful place amongst the pi…

Provenance

Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne; Collection of the late Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, Sydney; Bonhams, Fairwater, The Collection of Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, 22 September 2019, Lot 221; Private collection, Sydney

Exhibitions

Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, May 1940

Literature

The Art of Adrian Lawlor' in Art in Australia, series 3, no. 80, August 1940, pp. 18, 19 (illus.) as Banner of Blood, Painted on receiving a Poem from Alister Kershaw as now in the possession of Warwick Fairfax