The Estate of Edwin Tanner
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Edwin Tanner
For Airmen, 1973
etching on paper
50.50 x 51.00
signed and dated ‘Edwin Tanner 1973’ in plate.
Anthony Fitzpatrick, "Edwin Tanner: Mathematical Expressionist", Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2018, exhibition catalogue, see illus p 40 for ‘Self Portrait of the Artist Stunting’, 1958 (previous CBUS collection);
"Edwin Tanner: Selected Later Works', Charles Nodrum Gallery, exhibition catalogue, 2009, see illus unpaginated for ‘Homage to Pioneer Airmen’, 1962, for an abstracted reference to the artist’s interest in flying consisting of multiple toy plane propellers embedded in the construction.
The poem is the artist’s; alongside his art practice, Tanner was a professional engineer, a published poet, read philosophy, and maintained hobbies of cycling, shooting and flying.
Further works by the Artist
Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.