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GALLERY NEWS 10 March 2010: Garry Shead, Arthur Boyd, Zhong Chen

83 Moncur Street Woollahra NSW 2025
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New in the Gallery

Garry Shead (b.1942)

Garry Shead (b.1942)
Wye Wurk 1994
Oil on board
90 x 120cm
Signed 'Garry Shead 94' lower left
Provenance:
Private collection, Queensland
Schubert Gallery, Gold Coast
no.11266

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Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
Pulpit Rock, Bathers and Muzzled Dog c.1987
Oil on canvas
152.3 x 123cm
Signed 'Arthur Boyd' lower right
no.9184

Illustrated: Exhibition Catalogue, Arthur Boyd, Australian Embassy, Washington DC, 1986
Exhibited: Arthur Boyd, Australian Embassy, Washington DC, 30 May – 21 June 1986.

Born into a lineage of gifted painters, potters, musicians and architects, Arthur Boyd became the most celebrated member, in Australia’s cultural history, of that revered artistic family. Arthur Boyd is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries and many other important public collections both in Australia and overseas.

The Shoalhaven River is one of the most important subjects in Arthur Boyd’s remarkable body of work. The Boyd’s purchased the first of two properties, Riversdale, in 1973 and the second, Bundanon in 1979. Pulpit Rock, Bathers and Muzzled Dog c.1987 assaults the viewer with a vivid depiction of nature vs man-made hedonism. A dramatic painting with much wall power, it is concerned with the destruction of beauty, peace and tranquility in the natural environment through ignorant and pleasure seeking pastimes such as water skiing. This is clearly evident in the violent juxtaposition of a muzzled dog chasing a helmet wearing human figure (which appears to morph into an animalistic symbol of speed and greed) against a serene seemingly untouched escarpment of natural landscape. (Janet McKenzie, Arthur Boyd: Art and Life, pp.186-189)

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Zhong Chen (b.1969)

Arriving in the gallery soon

Zhong Chen (b.1969)
Rainy Day 6
Oil on linen
90 x 122 cm

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Ray Crooke (b.1922)

Ray Crooke (b.1922)
Mother and Child c.1985
oil on canvas
60 x 50cm
Provenance: Private collection, Sydney
no.11274

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Sir Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)

Sir Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)
New Guinea Series 1968
ripolin and mixed media on paper
52 x 79cm (sight size)
Signed: 'Nolan' lower right
Provenance: Savill Gallery, Sydney. (Label attached verso)
The Everad Read Gallery, Johannesburg. (Label attached verso)
Private collection, Sydney
no. 11272

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Sir Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)
Central Australia 1967
ripolin on paper
52 x 76cm (sight size)
Signed: 'Nolan 1967' lower right
Provenance: Private collection, Sydney
no. 11273

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James Gleeson (1915-2008)

James Gleeson (1915-2008)
Figure in Psychoscape c.1965
oil on board
14.5 x 11 cm
Signed 'Gleeson' lower right
Provenance: Private collection, Sydney
no.11271

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Adriane Strampp (b.1960)

Arriving soon in the gallery

Adriane Strampp (b.1960)
Untitled 2004
Oil on canvas
150 x 350 cm (total - 3 panels)
Provenance: Private Collection Sydney
Eva Breuer Art Dealer, 2004
no.6648a

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Current Exhibition

Wayne Eager (b.1957)
New Paintings 2010

Wayne Eager (b.1957)
Green Grass 2010
acrylic on linen
120 x 65 cm
no.11232

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Upcoming Exhibition

Food & Art
On view from 26th March 2010

David Boyd (b.1924)

David Boyd (b.1924)
Two Children with apple and orange 1999
Oil on board
16.5 x 19cm
no.3740

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Children in Art
On view from 6th April 2010

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)
Mother and Child 1977
Etching 32/60
60.5 x 45cm (plate size)
75.5 x 53cm (sheet size)
Edition of 60, with 8-10 APs
Printer: Max Miller, Sydney
Publisher: Port Jackson Press, Sydney
Exhibited: 'Recent Paintings and Drawings', Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, September 1977, cat. 74
no.7059

Note: The mother in this etching is the artist's sister Fran, with her baby (Source: Brett Whiteley: The Graphics 1961-1992, Deutscher Art Pty Ltd, Melbourne, 1995)

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Pam Sackville (b.1944)
New Paintings 2010

Opening Saturday 17 April 2010, 3-5PM

Paintings available to view now

Pam Sackville (b.1944)
Pears in a Napoleon Dish 2008
Watercolour on arches paper
75 x 105cm
no.9647

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Featured Graphics

John Coburn (1925-2006)

John Coburn (1925-2006)
Cosi fan Tutti 1990
Screen Print (13 colours)
Edition A/P on BFK Rives
artist's proof: 10
60 x 50cm (image)
76 x 56.5cm (sheet)
signed, dated LR, inscribed with title LC and with edition LL
printed by Michael Phelps, Sydney
commissioned by Opera Australia on the theme of one of
the operas performed in that season. Due to timing his
print was not part of a set of 5 prints by other artists, also on
opera themes, commissioned around the same time.
no.11222

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David Wadelton

David Wadelton
Still Life - Hand and Foot
Lithograph 42/60
64 x 45.5cm
Commissioned by the Australian Opera for its
Australian Opera's 40th Anniversary Print Portfolio
(to be sold individually)
no.7735

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Current Exhibition

March
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Wayne Eager

Upcoming Exhibitions

March
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Food & Art

April
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Children in Art
Gallery 2: Pam Sackville

May
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Brian Seidel

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New in the Gallery: Cassab, Friend & Coburn

Judy Cassab

Judy Cassab
Untitled c.1965
Oil on board
46.5 x 61cm
no.11216

Donald Friend: The Four Seasons Etchings

John Coburn

GALLERY NEWS 29 JANUARY 2010: Sidney Nolan, Leonard French, Brett Whiteley, Roger Kemp

83 Moncur Street Woollahra NSW 2025
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Important Australian Paintings

Sir Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)

Sir Sidney Nolan (1917-1992)
Kelly 1959
Polyvinyl acetate on board
151 x 120.25 cm
signed lower left: N
verso: Feb 23rd 1959 / N
no.8163

Provenance: Private collection New South Wales

Exhibited: Unmasked: Sidney Nolan and Ned Kelly 1950 - 1990, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 11 November 2006- 4 March 2007

Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly paintings are among the most important in his oeuvre. Painting the first of his Kelly series in 1946-47 (National Gallery of Australia), Nolan returned to the Kelly figure many times and it is the 1950s Kelly paintings in particular which establish “a new magic and imaginative power.”1 In these later Kelly paintings the ‘naïve’ style of the 1940s Kelly series has been replaced by a more human, emotional intensity. In Kelly 1959 Nolan combines the heroic image of Ned Kelly with the classical image of martyrdom. This work highlights Nolan’s interest in the mythic and uniquely Australian Kelly saga as a story which parallels classical legend. Painted while Nolan was in New York on a Harkness Fellowship, Kelly 1959 is executed in polyvinyl acetate (the medium used for the Leda and Swan series also painted at this time) which Nolan scraped across the board in multiple transparent layers of luminous and varied colour.

1 Clark. J., Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and Legends, ICCA, Sydney, 1987, pp.120-21.

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Leonard French (b.1928)

Leonard French (b.1928)
Winter Fountain c.1987-93
enamel and gold leaf on hessian on composition board
122 x 137 cm
Signed: l.r. 'French'
Provenance: Private collection Perth
no.11197

Leonard French's works frequently depict epic stories, such as the Iliad, the Odyssey and events from the Bible. These stories allow him a platform to explore universal themes, most frequently the struggle and spiritual journey of a hero. His highly individual and distinctive works reveal a plethora of influences, from Byzantine mosaics (his symmetry and precision), to Gothic (bright colours outlined in black), Romanesque architecture (squat, solid figures) Cubism and the work of Léger to name but a few. This work, Winter Fountain, exemplifies all these elements. The two figures in the work – one black, one white and both with distinctive rounded heads, first began appearing in French’s work in the late 1980’s. Like many facets of French’s work they appear to be highly symbolic, but with the exact meaning intended by the artist obscured. Other works wit these figures include The Release (in the collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery), Duet and The Tightrope (both in private collections.) Winter Fountain from the Duality series, expresses a deep sense of self and individual mortality. The series which was created during the late eighties explores the human condition as the figure struggles with between light and dark images of self. French's work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, all state galleries, most regional galleries and is also included in many major international collections, including the MoMA, New York. French also completed numerous monumental commissions in Australia, the most famous being the glass ceiling in the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)
Untitled (Bird) 1978
Oil on board with mixed media
82 x 85.5cm
Signed 'Brett Whiteley 78' lower left
Provenance: Private collection Sydney
no.8781

Brett Whiteley created some of the most important paintings of twentieth century Australian Art. His mastery of, and unique approach to form, colour, light and gesture in a body of work which spans subjects from birds to boulders, have made him one of the icons of not only the Australian art world but also internationally. Brett Whiteley is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries, as well as many important public collections both in Australia and overseas. Three of Brett Whiteley’s most memorable solo exhibitions were devoted to the theme of birds in 1979, 1983 and 1988. “It is not too fanciful to think of Whiteley’s bird paintings as self portraits”, Barry Pearce has commented. “He loved them since childhood and in his last phase of work they became symbols of both domesticity and freedom.” Reference: The Australian Magazine, 26 August, 1995, p.16.

“Pearce has described Whiteley as “Australia’s most sublime painter of birds, “as essential symbols of the song of creation and the joy of life.” Reference: Barry Pearce (1989), Australian Artists, Australian Birds, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, p.144.

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Roger Kemp (1908-1987)

Roger Kemp (1908-1987)
Untitled c.1963
Acrylic on masonite
91.5 x 122cm
no.5320

Roger Kemp is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries as well as many other public collections throughout Australia. Kemp has been the recipient of numerous coveted awards including the 1968 and 1970 Blake Prize. “Kemp’s contribution to the development of abstract painting in Australia is substantial. He has shown how a personal language can be developed from experience with effort and tenacity without recourse to models from abroad.”

Reference: Roger Kemp: Cycle and Directions 1935 –1975, Monash University Department of Visual arts, Exhibition Gallery, Melbourne: The Gallery, 1978 pp.1-2.

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Kevin Connor (b. 1932)

Kevin Connor (b. 1932)
Movie World People 1993
Oil on linen
71 x 91.5cm
no.6155

Kevin Connor is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, most state galleries, many regional regional galleries as well as many other public collections throughout Australia. He has been the recipient of numerous coveted awards including the 1975 and 1977 Archibald prize, 1991 Sulman Prize and the 1992 and 2005 Dobell Prize. Movie World People 1993 is a bold, painterly work. Connor's brush work is loose and immediate, the paint application heavy, enlivening the painting with a distinct sense of movement.

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James Gleeson (1915-2008)

James Gleeson (1915-2008)
Untitled (Two Figures in Psychoscape) c.1965
oil on board
19 x 14.5cm
Signed 'Gleeson' lower right
Provenance: Sydney Antique centre
Grafton House Gallery
Private collection Cairns
no.11139

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David Boyd (b.1924)

David Boyd (b.1924)
Three Children by the sea c.1999
Oil on board
26 x 22 cm
Signed: "David Boyd" lower left
Provenance: Private collection Sydney
no.11017

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Contemporary Paintings

Elisabeth Kruger (b.1955)

Elisabeth Kruger (b.1955)
Spill 2007
oil on linen
122 x 122cm
no.10885

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Wayne Eager (b.1957)

Wayne Eager (b.1957)
Fragrance, 2008
acrylic on linen (framed)
152 x 122cm
no.10424

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Tony Irving (b.1939)

Tony Irving (b.1939)
Beyond the fence 2009
oil on linen
80 x 130cm
no.11146

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Judy Cassab (b. 1920)

Judy Cassab (b. 1920)
Women with Sphinx 2007
Oil on canvas
39.5 x 50 cm
Signed 'Cassab 07' lower right
Provenance: The artist
no.10678

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Anna Platten (b.1957)

Anna Platten (b.1957)
Head and House 2007
charcoal on paper
125 x 100cm
no.10769

Finalist in the Kedumba drawing prize 2007

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Paul Procee

Paul Procee
My Spineless Cousin 2009
Oil on copper
25 x 20cm
no.11195

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Philippa Blair (b.1945)

Philippa Blair (b.1945)
Knockout 2007
oil on canvas
152.5 x 152.5 cm
no.9863

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Geoffrey Proud (b. 1946)

Geoffrey Proud (b. 1946)
Cloudy Day, Rain Sprite
pastel on paper
67 x 47cm
signed 'Proud' lower right
no.10161

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Featured Graphic

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)

Arthur Boyd (1920-1999)
Lovers in a Landscape
Etching A/P
26.5 x 30cm (image)
37.5 x 52.5cm (paper)
signed Arthur Boyd, VI/VI, A/P
no.10436

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John Coburn (1925-2006)

John Coburn (1925-2006)
Rare Bird 1987
Screen print A/P (6 colours)
artist' proof: 10
48 x 70cm (image)
54.9 x 74.9cm (sheet)
signed, dated LR, inscribed with title LC and edition LL
printed by Michael Phelps, Sydney
commissioned by the New South Wales State Cancer Council for its Bicentennial Collection: A portfolio of Australian artists (a boxed set with 11 other artists)
no.10386

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Current Exhibition

February
Gallery 1 & 2: Summer Exhibition


Upcoming Exhibitions

March
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Wayne Eager

April
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Pam Sackville

May
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Brian Seidel

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GALLERY NEWS 27 JANUARY 2010: Leonard French, Garry Shead, Ray Crooke, Brett Whiteley

83 Moncur Street Woollahra NSW 2025
tel: 02 9362 0297 fax: 02 9362 0318
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Important Australian Paintings

Leonard French (b.1928)

Leonard French (b.1928)
Winter Fountain c.1987-93
enamel and gold leaf on hessian on composition board
122 x 137 cm
Signed: l.r. 'French'
Provenance: Private collection Perth
no.11197

Throughout his career as an artist Leonard French has held true to the philosophy of art at the service of the common man. His works frequently depict epic stories, such as the Iliad, the Odyssey and events from the Bible. These stories allow him a platform to explore universal themes, most frequently the struggle and spiritual journey of a hero. His highly individual and distinctive works reveal a plethora of influences, from Byzantine mosaics (his symmetry and precision), to Gothic (bright colours outlined in black), Romanesque architecture (squat, solid figures) Cubism and the work of Léger to name but a few. This work, Winter Fountain, exemplifies all these elements. The two figures in the work – one black, one white and both with distinctive rounded heads, first began appearing in French’s work in the late 1980’s. Like many facets of French’s work they appear to be highly symbolic, but with the exact meaning intended by the artist obscured. Other works with these figures include The Release (in the collection of the Bendigo Art Gallery), Duet and The Tightrope (both in private collections.)

French's work is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, all state galleries, most regional galleries and is also included in many major international collections, including the MoMA, New York. French also completed numerous monumental commissions in Australia, the most famous being the glass ceiling in the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Garry Shead (b.1942)

Garry Shead (b.1942)
Dancer c.1998
Oil on board
59 x 43 cm
Signed 'Shead' lower left
Provenance: Private collection Sydney
no.11134

As Sasha Grishin describes the series: “Throughout the series the constant recurring motif is that of the fully clad male dancer, usually shown in an evening suit and occasionally appearing slightly awkward and uncertain of himself, accompanied by a nude, or an almost nude female dancer. On one very basic level there is the aspect of voyeuristic erotic wish-fulfillment, drawing on the surrealist strategy of undressing the woman with the male gaze that had been so effectively employed by Renne Magrite. Shead’s female dancers are of great sensuous beauty and lyrical charm. There is a hint of a more metaphysical dimension of this dance, relating it to the dance of life as interpreted by artists like Edvard Munch. The Dance is performed on an allegorical stage like the arena of life, sometimes with an awareness of an audience and sometimes under the harsh glow of the spotlights. In most of the ‘Dance Sequence’ paintings there is an indication of an open door in the background, at times shown as the source of light, but in all instances the door way is a path for escape. Shead achieves in this series of paintings a great lyricism in the paint surface, a warm sensuousness through which the female flesh glows in a rich radiance. Increasingly these intimate interior settings allude to ambiguous and seductive dream-like reality where ideas and interpretations float free from gravity and verbal associations."

Reference: Grishin S, Garry Shead and The Erotic Muse, Craftsman House, 2001 p.166.

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Ray Crooke (b.1922)

Ray Crooke (b. 1922)
Villagers Relaxing
oil on canvas
75 x 61cm
signed lower left 'R. Crooke'
Provenance: Private collection Sydney
no.11049

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Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992)
The Luxembourg Gardens (glimpse) (detail)
Pen and Ink on Paper
55.5 x 75 cm
Initialed 'BW' lower right
Illustrated: Brett Whiteley: Paris Regarde de Côté, Australian Galleries, 1990, Plate 41.
Provenance: Australian Galleries
Private collection Melbourne since 1992
no.11042

The Luxembourg Gardens (glimpse) is part of a series of works on paper which Whiteley produced in Paris between June and July of 1989. Whiteley had rented an apartment on the Rue de Tournon and produced one work a day for 60 days. These are regarde de cote (sidelong glances), which Whiteley saw as the answer to creating images of the city which were not cliché. "millions of pictures have been painted – how to find a new vision is the challenge. What one is after is a high-octane visual poetic journalism, brief, essential and above all fresh. This can best be achieved by drawing, and not the heavy métier of oil paint." Offered for the first time since it was acquired from the Paris Regarde de Coté exhibition this is a superb example of Whiteley's masterful draughtsmanship.

Reference: Brett Whiteley's introduction to: Brett Whiteley: Paris Regarde De Côté, Australian Galleries, 1990.

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John Coburn (1925-2006)

John Coburn (1925 - 2006)
Central Desert Painting
Oil on canvas
183 x 244cm
no.10080

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Elisabeth Kruger (b.1955)

Elisabeth Kruger (b.1955)
Cirque 2008
oil on linen
122.5 x 153cm
no.10884

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Ken Whisson (b.1927)

Ken Whisson (b.1927)
A Day in the Country 1967
Oil on board
73 x 102cm
Signed 'WHISSON' upper left
Inscribed verso "A DAY IN THE COUNTRY" / A DAY IN THE COUNTRY / CLEAR AND COLD / "THE FOXES ON THE HILLS BARKED CLEAR AND COLD"
Provenance: Watters Gallery, Sydney; Esa Jaske Gallery, Sudney
Exhibited: Ken Whisson: Paintings 1957-1985, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 1985 (cat. 13)
Reference: Ken Whisson Paintings 1947-1999, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 2001, p. 120, cat. 19 (illustration p. 35)
Ken Whisson: Paintings 1957-1985, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales, 1985, p. 50, cat. 13 (illustration p. 31)
no.7991

Ken Whisson is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries, as well as many other important public collections in Australia and overseas. He has been the recipient of many awards including the 1979 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize.

Ken Whisson's highly individual form of painting is often derived from and stimulated by memory and intuition. John MacDonald explains that Whisson is "asking the viewer to see with the eye of the mind rather than expecting a perfect match between the object and it's representation." In A Day in the Country, Whisson pushes the paint around his canvases at oblique and obscure angles, creating opposing red, green yellow and blue shapes and forms which echo a figure or a chair a dog or a boat. The resulting painting is fluid and dynamic.

Illustrated: McDonald. J., et al, Ken Whisson Paintings 1947 - 1999, Niagara Publishing, 2001, p.35.

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Roland Wakelin (1887-1971)

Roland Wakelin (1887-1971)
Terrace Houses Double Bay 1963
Oil on board
45 x 64 cm
Signed 'R.Wakelin 63' bottom left
no.11144

Provenance:
Private collection, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Toorak Art Gallery (label attached verso) - On loan from Mr P English
Geelong Art Gallery (label attached verso)
Roland Wakelin Retrospective Art Gallery of NSW 8 - 30 April 1967 cat no.87
Roland Wakelin: Master of Colour, A Newcastle Regional Gallery Touring exhibition, 2002
Toured to Newcastle City Art Gallery 10-13 May 1967

Illustrated:
Roland Wakelin: Master of Colour, A Newcastle Regional Gallery Touring exhibition, 2002

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Patrick Hockey (1948-1992)

Patrick Hockey (1948-1992)
Untitled 1975
oil on board
44 x 44 cm
signed 'Hockey 75' lower left
provenance: private collection Sydney
no.9656

Patrick Hockey is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries, many regional galleries as well as many other important public collections both in Australia and internationally.

Hockey’s Australian ‘Outback Hotel’ series (loosely worked renderings of outback hotels and their patrons) capture the essence of the sun-hardened heart of the land and it’s quintessentially Australian characters.

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Arthur Murch (1902-1989)

Arthur Murch (1902-1989)
Leda and the swan
Oil on board
39.5 x 49.5 cm
no.5186a

Arthur Murch, a Sydney based painter, trained under Dattilo Rubbo and the sculptor Raynor Hoff in the early 1920s. Murch is renowned for his ability to recreate luminosity in paint. He won the NSW Society of Artists Travelling Art Scholarship in 1925 and worked as a studio assistant to George Lambert before travelling throughout Europe in the 1930s. He was appointed Official War Artist in 1942 and won the Archibald prize in 1949. Under Lambert, Murch developed a romantic style of painting. His paintings portray an idyllic version of Australian life, depicting a playful Arcadian seaside existence. Experimenting with colour, pattern and light, Murch developed a distinctive style.

Arthur Murch is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and all State and many regional galleries.

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Jean Appleton (1911-2003)

Jean Appleton (1911 - 2003)
Early Morning Light c.1978
Oil on board
78 x 99 cm
no.5100

Jean Appleton is represented in many state and regional galleries as well as other public collections in Australia and overseas including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She was the recipient of many coveted awards including the inaugural Portia Geach Memorial Prize in 1965.

“Jean Appleton’s practice has always tended to still lifes and landscape, and since the mid-1970s at least she has been almost exclusively involved in painting interiors – works which at one level vary little in the flowers, fruits, furniture, jugs and drapery they utilise – and yet provide, as the still-life genre has traditionally done, endless possibilities for the artist to contemplate reality, experiment visually, and construct a vocabulary of creative expression."

Reference: Simpson, Caroline, Jean Appleton: a lifetime with art, Woollahra, N.S.W, 1998 pp.89

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Brian Dunlop (1938-2009)

Brian Dunlop (1938-2009)
Malatesta Kneeling 1979
oil on canvas
121 x 169cm
no.5599

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Ena Joyce (b.1926)

Ena Joyce (b.1926)
Bathing Sheds Round the Bay c.1958
oil on board
39.5 x 44cm
no.7231

Bathing Sheds Round the Bay c.1958 is a beautiful example of Joyce’s wonderful colour harmonies and sensitive observation of light.

"While teaching at Ballarat I met my future husband. We lived in Melbourne where I often painted round Port Phillip Bay and the areas familiar to Clarice Beckett." Ena Joyce

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Introducing Andrew Paviour

Andrew Paviour
Wedding Reception
oil on canvas
66 x 76 cm
no.11189

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Andrew Paviour
At the Races
oil on canvas
76 x 84 cm

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Contemporary Australian Paintings

Adriane Strampp (b.1960)

Adriane Strampp (b.1960)
Stags 2009
Oil on linen
101.5 x 101.5 cm
no.10650

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Christopher McVinish (b.1952)

Christopher McVinish (b.1952)
The Ongoing Moment
oil on canvas
110 x 110cm
no.11196

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Featured Graphic

Fred Williams (1927-1982)

Fred Williams (1927-1982)
Upwey Landscape 1965-1966
etching 16/22
21 x 13cm
signed 'Fred Williams' lower right
no.97355

Fred Williams is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, most state galleries, many regional galleries as well as many other public collections throughout Australia. Upwey Landscape 1965-66, a rare etching of this period, is an example of the unique visual shorthand which Williams devised to capture the beauty of the Australian landscape.

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Current Exhibition

January
Gallery 1 & 2: Summer Exhibition


Upcoming Exhibitions

February
Gallery 1 & 2: Summer Exhibition

March
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Wayne Eager

April
Gallery 1: Autumn Exhibition
Gallery 2: Pam Sackville

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