Brought to Light Australian Art 1850-1965

Publisher Queensland Art Gallery South Bank South Brisbane Qld 4101 PO Box 3686 South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia © Queensland Art Gallery 1998 reprinted 1999 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the publisher. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held in each case by the authors and/or the Queensland Art Gallery and no text may be reproduced without the copyright owners' permission. No photograph printed in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Every attempt has been made to locate the holders of copyright and reproduction rights of all images reproduced in this publication. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any reader with further information. Care has been taken to ensure that the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the colour transparencies of the original art works. Project Team Editors Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington Project Manager Dr Michael Brand Manuscript Editor Suzanne Grano Designer Elliott Murray Assistant Designer Brett Geoghegan Editorial Assistant (Copyright) Bronwyn Mahoney Photographer Ray Fulton (except where otherwise acknowledged) Editorial Assistant Robyn Ziebell Typeset in Giovanni and Frutiger by Typographix Pty Ltd, Brisbane Colour scans by Image Studio Pty Ltd, Brisbane Printed on Chorus Silk 750gsm by Screen Offset Printing, Brisbane National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in- Publication data: Brought to Light - Australian Art 1850-1960 ISBN 0-7242-8211-4 1. Queensland Art Gallery. 2. Art, Australian. 3. Art, Modern - 19th century - Australia. 4. Art, Modern- 20th century- Australia. 5. Art- Queensland– Brisbane. I. Seear, Lynne, 1953-. II. Ewington, Julie. Ill. Queensland Art Gallery 709.94 Notes on the publication Essays are presented in chronological order of the date of the main work discussed. Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publishers. Other works from the QAG Collection may be illustrated where appropriate without being directly referred to within the text. Where known, the location of additional works referred ·to in the text, held in Australian collections, is provided. Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (em), height preceding width preceding depth. Cover illustration and title page detail R. Godfrey Rivers Under the jacaranda 1903 Oil on canvas 143.4x107.2cm Purchased 1903 Queensland Art Gallery Page 5 Conrad Martens Forest, Cunningham's Gap 1856 Watercolour on paper 30.5x42cm Purchased 1998 with funds raised through The Conrad Martens Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Appeal and with the assistance of the Queensland Government's special Centenary fund Page 320 Vida Lahey The new bridge 1931 Watercolour on paper 48.7x53.5cm Purchased 1997 with funds from M.I.M.Holdings Limited through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation