Eric Thake b. 1904

Also known as Eric Prentice Anchor Thake
  • Artist
Mid 20th century Melbourne surrealist, graphic and commercial artist and illustrator, designer and painter. A mural by Thake for the ETA peanut butter factory, Braybrook (1961) is also known.

Citations

  • (October 1976), 'Eric Thake: Pubs & Bars’, Geelong, Victoria: Geelong Art Gallery, .

  • (December 1968), 'Eric Thake: Linocuts, drawings, photographs’, Newcastle, New South Wales: Newcastle City Art Gallery, .

  • (January 1981), 'Eric Thake: A personal retrospective’, Melbourne, Victoria: Ministry for the Arts Foyer Gallery, .

  • McAuslan, Jean (March 1983), 'Eric Thake 1904-82’, Canberra, ACT: Journal of the Australian War Memorial 2, pp 20-23, .

  • (19 August 1972), 'A portrait of the artist’, Melbourne Herald.

  • (12 November 1982), 'A singular man of surreal vision’, Melbourne, Victoria: Age, p 14.

  • Chapman, Christopher (1993), 'Surrealism: Revolution by Night’, Canberra, ACT: National Gallery of Australia, pp 263 ff.

  • Information sourced from Crayford.

  • Croll, R.H. (1942), 'The Bookplates of Eric Thake’, Melbourne, Victoria: Hawthorn Press.

  • Grant, Kirsty (1997), 'In Relief’, Melbourne, Victoria: National Gallery of Victoria.

  • Macleod, Diane (1996), 'People, Prints and Patronage: The development of the Geelong Art Gallery’s print collection 1900-1996’, Geelong, Victoria: Geelong Art Gallery.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Victoria: Hutchinson of Australia.

  • Pinson, Peter, 'PhD thesis on Thake’, Sydney, New South Wales: College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.

  • Summons, Elizabeth (intro.) (1978), 'The Eric Thake Picture Book’, Melbourne, Victoria: Gryphon Books.

  • Thake, Eric, (own books).

  • Wood, Lilian, p.41.

  • Melbourne, Victoria: National Gallery of Victoria files.

  • Skinner, Dion H.; and Kroeger, John (1968), 'Renniks Australian Artists’, Adelaide, SA : Renniks.

  • (24 November 1999), Melbourne, Victoria: Deutscher-Menzies catalogue, lot 168.

  • (1 May 2002), Melbourne, Victoria: Deutscher-Menzies catalogue, lot 277.

  • Melbourne, Victoria: Meanjin.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists