JAMES NORTHFIELD (1887 -1973) CANBERRA / AUSTRALIA. Circa 1934. 40x25 inches, 101x63 1/2 cm. J. E. Hackett. Condition B: recreated upper left corner; restored losses, restoration and overpainting in margins; creases and abrasions in image. "On 31 August 1933 Charles Holmes, Director of the Australian National Travel Association, wrote to C.S. Daley who was then Civic Representative of the Department of the Interior, Canberra. Holmes was replying to Daley's request for ways of popularising Canberra as a tourist resort amongst Australians. Holmes mentioned . . . that he had arranged for James Northfield, whom he considered 'one of the leading commercial artists in Australia', to pay a visit to Canberra with a view to producing a poster which would be circulated 'throughout the English speaking world'" (Northfield p. 44). Northfield p. 44.
