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Paris-based Australian painter, Rupert Bunny, was commissioned by Percy Grainger to paint this portrait in the first few years of the young musician’s professional career. Bunny depicted Grainger holding a sheet of music and focussed attention on his…

Chromogenic print from Kodachrome slide.

Photo: 23.9 x 9 cm
Photo and frame: 30.6 x 25.5 cm

This portrait depicts a frontal view of Cyril Scott as an elderly gentleman. He is not looking directly at the camera and is wearing a black suit with…

Watercolour and ink on paper.

Ink, paper, wood, tape, glass

Grainger scored his compositions Free Music No.1 and Free Music No.2 (1936-7) for multiple theremins. These scores were reproduced by Grainger in this Free Music Legend which he made for the Grainger Museum’s…

Ink on paper

21.4 x 14.3 cm

Photograph of Free Music experiments with Grainger's Duo Art player piano, and types notes by Grainger describing the experiment