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Percy Grainger
Platinum print, hand-made paper, graphite.
Photo: 28.6 x 21.7 cm
Parchment/Velum Paper?: 45.5 x 41.1 cm
Board: 64 x 51.1 cm
Baron Adolph Sigismund de Meyer is seen by many as the founder of fashion photography. Later in his career he was to…
Photo: 28.6 x 21.7 cm
Parchment/Velum Paper?: 45.5 x 41.1 cm
Board: 64 x 51.1 cm
Baron Adolph Sigismund de Meyer is seen by many as the founder of fashion photography. Later in his career he was to…
Portrait of a young Percy Grainger wearing a double breasted coat
Sepia toned black and white photograph.
Photo: 23 x 13.4 cm
Paper: 24 x 13.8 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been mounted on 2…
Photo: 23 x 13.4 cm
Paper: 24 x 13.8 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been mounted on 2…
Portrait of Percy Grainger on a postcard
Sepia toned black and white photograph.
13.6 x 8.7 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been printed onto a German postcard.
13.6 x 8.7 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been printed onto a German postcard.
Bell-Field
Federation Handbells, on loan from Museums Victoria, in a display created by postgraduate students from the Melbourne School of Design, for the exhibition How it plays: Innovations in percussion, 2019. The postgraduate students describe their…
Letter from Ormond Professor Bernard Heinze to Percy Grainger, 25 September 1936, and accompanying photograph of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne.
In this letter, Heinze shares an image of the Grainger Museum at the completion of its first phase, with Percy Grainger. Grainger had participated in early design of the Museum, but was obliged to leave the project with the local team of architects,…
Portable harmonium (reed organ)
Wood, ivory, felt, metal.
Grainger wrote in 1929, ‘If I were forced to choose one instrument only for chamber music – I would choose the harmonium (reed-organ) without hesitation; for it seems to me the most sensitively and intimately expressive…
Grainger wrote in 1929, ‘If I were forced to choose one instrument only for chamber music – I would choose the harmonium (reed-organ) without hesitation; for it seems to me the most sensitively and intimately expressive…
Ella Grainger, seated at her writing desk in the living room at home in White Plains, contemplates the “Kangaroo Pouch” Free Music machine
Donated to the Grainger Museum by Burnett Cross on 19 April 1994
Ella Grainger and Percy Grainger, ‘Composers eyes’
Chromogenic print from Kodachrome slide.
Photo (EG): 13.3 x 18.3 cm
Photo (PG): 20.2 x 25.4 cm
Photos and board: 56.1 x 40.7 cm
From the series ‘what colour are composers’ eyes’. There are 2 photographs mounted on card. The top photographs…
Photo (EG): 13.3 x 18.3 cm
Photo (PG): 20.2 x 25.4 cm
Photos and board: 56.1 x 40.7 cm
From the series ‘what colour are composers’ eyes’. There are 2 photographs mounted on card. The top photographs…
Percy Grainger
Silver gelatin print.
Photo: 10.8 x 15.7 cm
Envelope: 11.5 x 16.1 cm
Note: 19.0 x 21 cm
Grainger died of cancer in 1961. This photograph was taken in the year before his death by his friend Burnett Cross, physicist and co-experimenter with…
Photo: 10.8 x 15.7 cm
Envelope: 11.5 x 16.1 cm
Note: 19.0 x 21 cm
Grainger died of cancer in 1961. This photograph was taken in the year before his death by his friend Burnett Cross, physicist and co-experimenter with…
Grainger working in his study at White Plains, New York.
Silver gelatine print.
18.2 x 18.9 cm
Grainger working in his study at White Plains, New York.
18.2 x 18.9 cm
Grainger working in his study at White Plains, New York.