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Black and white proof sheets and negatives of the design for the mural for Nauru House Melbourne. 1976.;PRG 919/15/508-658 Black and white photographs of Nauru. J S Ostoja-Kotkowski visited Nauru in April 1974 to gain ideas for the mural for Nauru House in Melbourne. The photographs include images of the coral, mined sites, flora, people, buildings, birdlife, and Ostoja. (508-513 A3 size) 1974.;PRG 919/15/659-782 Black and white photographs of the mural being made for Nauru House in Melbourne. The photographs include sections of the bas-relief mural in various stages of creation including the finished sections, J S Ostoja-Kotkowski and his colleagues working on the mural, and the workshop. The mural was 240 feet long and made of aluminium finished fibreglass. It includes birds, flowers, trees, a crab, a snake, a grasshopper, a clam, spider and its web, fish, the shape of the island, coral, a man, and the mined sites. 1975-1976.;PRG 919/15/783-790 Colour photographs of the mural for Nauru House in Melbourne. The photographs include sections of the completed mural and J S Ostoja-Kotkowski with the bird and snake sections. 1975-1976.;PRG 919/15/791-800 Black and white proof sheets and negatives of images of Nauru taken during J S Ostoja-Kotkowski's visit in 1974. (Includes 508-658 plus other images) 1974.

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Physical description

Watercolour;
pencil sketch;
sketch;
photoprint;
negative (acetate);
slide (acetate);
leaflet;
pamphlet;
typescript;
handwritten;
newspaper cutting
2.0 m

Dates / Publication details

1955-1988

Creator

Ostoja-Kotkowski, Stanisław

Subject

Ostoja-Kotkowski, Stanisław, 1922-1994
Marceau, Marcel
Adelaide Airport (S.A.)
Expo 67 (1967: Montreal, Quebec)
Expo 88 (1988: Brisbane, Qld.)
Mural painting and decoration -- Australia
Bas-relief

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Date

04/11/2021

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

7,529 x 5,100 pixels (38.4 MP)

Size

76.82 MB

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