Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s–1950s

276 Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s–1950s 277 Front cover Gwendolyn Grant Australia QLD 1877–1968 Winter sunshine (detail) 1939 Oil on canvas 71.8 x 61.5cm Purchased 1939 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Back cover Kenneth Macqueen Australia NSW/QLD 1897–1960 Stranded tree trunk (detail) 1935 Watercolour with pencil on paper 39.8 x 46.7cm Purchased 1998 with the assistance of Philip Bacon AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Inside front cover Vida Lahey Australia QLD 1882–1968 Hibiscus, gerbera and russelia (detail) 1936 Watercolour over pencil on wove paper 61 x 71.2cm Gift of the Godfrey Rivers Trust 1937 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Inside back cover Frank Sherrin Australia QLD 1893–1968 Boat anchorage, Breakfast Creek (detail) 1945 Oil on canvas on board 35.5 x 45.5cm Bequest of June Marie Sherrin through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2019 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Publisher Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s–1950s’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at QAG, Brisbane, Australia, 16 August 2025 – 25 January 2026. © Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2025 This work is copyright and all rights are reserved. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia. PUBLICATION SPONSOR pp.2–3 Kenneth Macqueen Australia NSW/QLD 1897–1960 Hook Island from Hayman (detail) 1938 Watercolour over pencil on paper 31.7 x 40.4cm Purchased 2002. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art p.4 Vida Lahey Australia QLD 1882–1968 Calendulas (detail) c.1936–37 Watercolour and gouache over pencil on wove paper on cardboard 48 x 45.8cm Gift of Miss Maria Theresa Treweeke 1937 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art pp.6–7 Vera Leichney Australia VIC/QLD 1886–1951 Brisbane skyline (detail) c.1944 Oil on board 29.1 x 34cm Purchased 2024 with funds from Constantine Carides and Elene Carides in memory of their parents Kiryacos and Mary Carides through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art pp.8–9 Vida Lahey Australia QLD 1882–1968 Building the bridge (detail) 1931 Watercolour and gouache over pencil on wove paper on cardboard 25.3 x 30.3cm Gift from the estate of Mrs Gladys Powell 1941 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art p.10 Kathleen Shillam Australia QLD 1916–2002 (Banksia pods) (detail) c.1950s–60s Linocut, hand-coloured on paper 23.3 x 17cm Gift of the artist 1980 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art pp.12–13 Arthur Evan Read Australia VIC/NSW/QLD 1911–78 North of Capricorn (detail) 1956–57 Oil on plywood 91 x 183.2cm Gift of Mr W. Hecht 1960 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art p.34 Gwendolyne Grant Australia QLD 1877–1968 Waiting for the convoy 1943 Oil on board image 44.0 x 59.8cm Purchased 2014 Collection: The University of Queensland Photograph: Carl Warner pp.278–9 Margaret Cilento Australia/United States/England QLD/ VIC 1923–2006 Boys in the sun (detail) 1952 Gouache on wove paper on cardboard 28.4 x 38.5cm Purchased 1988. Andrew and Lilian Pedersen Trust Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art p.280 WG Grant Australia QLD 1876–1951 Channel to the beach (detail) c.1945–50 Watercolour on paper 50 x 61cm Gift in memory of Mary (Molly) Blyth Stanley through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2012 Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Notes on the publication Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. 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