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Eleonora Duse
Photogravure.
Photo: 19.8 x 10.9 cm
Photo and card: 34.8 x 26.8 cm
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was a much-adored star of the Italian stage who also enjoyed international acclaim. She is remembered for her roles in plays by Henrik Ibsen and…
Photo: 19.8 x 10.9 cm
Photo and card: 34.8 x 26.8 cm
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was a much-adored star of the Italian stage who also enjoyed international acclaim. She is remembered for her roles in plays by Henrik Ibsen and…
Ella and Percy Grainger inside the Grainger Museum, 1956.
Percy Grainger stated that the Grainger Museum was intended to ‘preserve and display exhibits collected by me during the last 40 years’ including material about his personal and professional life, as well as the ‘many different aspects’ of other…
Ella and Percy Grainger outside the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne, in 1938.
The design and construction of the Grainger Museum occurred in two stages: the central foyer and front galleries in 1935, and the adjoining radial and semicircular galleries in 1938. Throughout the entire process Grainger worked closely with…
Ella and Percy Grainger, early 1930s
Sepia toned silver gelatin print.
This complex photographic composition captures a fleeting moment of intimacy between Ella Grainger and her husband. Ella’s expression and body language suggest adoration, whereas Percy’s attention is turned…
This complex photographic composition captures a fleeting moment of intimacy between Ella Grainger and her husband. Ella’s expression and body language suggest adoration, whereas Percy’s attention is turned…
Ella Grainger
Silver gelatin print. 35.2 x 27.2 cm Swedish artist, poet and amateur musician Ella Viola Ström (1889-1979) married Grainger in 1928. Here she is depicted on her veranda in White Plains, New York, in a photograph taken by her neighbour, the…
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…
Ella Grainger painting in her Springfield apartment
silver gelatin print (annotations on negative by Percy Grainger)
15.3 x 9.6 cm
According to the inscriptions on the proper right edge and bottom of the photograph, this image depicts Eva painting a copy of her portrait of Percy Grainger in her…
15.3 x 9.6 cm
According to the inscriptions on the proper right edge and bottom of the photograph, this image depicts Eva painting a copy of her portrait of Percy Grainger in her…
Ella Grainger wearing her wedding dress, in the home she and Percy Grainger shared at White Plains< New York, 1928
Black and white photograph. 25.1 x 19.4 cm Swedish poet and painter, Ella Viola Strom, married Percy Grainger at the Hollywood Bowl, Southern California, USA, on 9 August 1928. The wedding occurred in front of a huge audience, estimated as between…
Ella Grainger with construction workers at the Grainger Museum site, University of Melbourne, 1938
Ella and Percy Grainger were closely involved with the design and construction of their museum on the grounds of the University. This photograph shows Ella Grainger on site in the second phase of building in 1938.
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