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Ink on paper

21.4 x 14.3 cm

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…

Watercolour and ink on paper.

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…

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…

Sepia toned black and white photograph.

Photo: 14.7 x 10.2 cm
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.5 cm

This portrait of Percy Grainger when he was 23 years old shows his profile. It contains the inscription: From fond "guttis" to his grandmother…

Rose entrusted Melba with the secret of her own illness from syphilis. A month after writing to Percy about his father, Melba wrote, ‘I have received your letter & also read your Mother’s letter to Bella. I am so sorry for her & so humiliated that…

These are a suit of innovative instruments designed and created by Neil McLachlan. Neil McLachlan is an Associate Professor with the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Like Anton Hasell, his research and…