MANNING, Tempe
Princes Street, Millers Point, The Rocks,' c1927

oil on board
signed lower left
37 x 44  cm

Comments: Manning was a student of Rubbo's from c1915 onwards. She is mentioned in a review of the 1916 Royal Art Society Exhibition along with Rubbo and Wakelin: 'Mr Rubbo has joined the pointillists and has dragged two students at least, Mr Wakelin and Miss Tempe Manning, after him. The three of them splash merrily with spots of crimson and green and vermilion and yellow and the results are certainly amazing.'

Manning disappeared from the Sydney art scene in 1922 , when she returned to the family home in Bowral. Her output between 1922 and the late 1930s appears to be meagre. However she painted a series of watercolours of the streets in The Rocks in January 1927. These watercolours include titles such as Princes St, Clarence St, The Hero of Waterloo and Bee Hive Hostel. Princes Street was resumed in December 1927, to make way for the Bradfield Highway which leads to the southern approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Bee Hive Hostel (Princes Street at Argyle Cut) is shown in Bridging Sydney published by The Historic Houses Trust 2006 on page 138 as “Princes Street looking south from bridge over Agyle Cut”. All of the houses on the right side of the painting are shown in this photograph. Some artistic licence appears to have been used as the telegraph poles in the photo, have been excluded from the painting. Ref Quoted by Bernard Smith in Australian Painting OUP, 1962. Tempe Manning, The Lost Modernist by Lesley Harding, Art & Australia, Vol. 36, No. 4, 1999 Bridging Sydney The Historic Houses Trust 2006

$ 3500 including GST

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