Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1996-97

Acquisitions: Private Donors Events Anonymous donor Coopers & Lybrand One work purchased: Sponsor: Ken Unsworth, Night r/tuo/s (no. 10 from 'The mirror and other fables' Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 1997 Dinner series) 1984 Mr Philip Bacon Exhibitions Assisted purchase: The Dictionary of Art: Macmillan Publishers Australia Pty Ltd Girolamo Nerli, The sitting 1889 Conference Sponsor: Dr Paul Eliadis 'The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' Three works purchased: Exhibitions Development Fund— Leonard Brown, Zeus 1995 Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd Leonard Brown, Post, present, future 1995 The Nikko Securities Co., Ltd Leonard Brown, The skydoor /s the place where you get down to drink The Meiji Life Insurance Company from the earth 1995 Nomura Australia Limited Mr James 0. Fairfax, AO Japan Travel Bureau (Aust) Pty Ltd Assisted purchase: Hitachi Australia Ltd Girolamo Nerli, The sitting 1889 Supported: Ms Marian Gibney 'The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' One work purchased: Santos Susan Cohn, Bow/ 1997 Sponsor: Mr Wayne Kratzmann 'The Urban Edge: Historical and Contemporary Works from the Assisted purchase: Queensland Art Gallery Collection' Girolamo Nerli, The sitting 1889 Mr Ray Lewis Gifts One work purchased: Mr Varro Clarke Robert Foster, The ghost teapot 1992 One work gifted: Miss Valmai Pidgeon John Salvana, (Brisbane scene) 19 18 One work purchased: Mrs Jessica Ellis Dr Wall (Worcester) Square dessert dish: Spotted fru/t c. 1770 Eight works gifted: Mr John Potter and Ms Roz MacAllan Dr Wall (Worcester), Reeded coffee pot c. 1758-60 Two works purchased: Dr Wall (Worcester), Tr/o: Rich Kok/emon c. 1765-75 Callum Morton, Home 1995-96 Dr Wall (Worcester), Pair of twelve-lobed bowls c. 1775 Margaret M. Wilson, Force I-/V 1995-96 Dr Wall (Worcester), Tr/o: Lord Henry Thynne c. 1775-83 Andrew Thyne Reid Charitable Trust Dr Wall (Worcester), Robert Hancock, Bell mug: King of Prussia c. 1757 Assisted purchase: Flight, Barr & Barr (Worcester), Port too service c. 1820-30 Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Utopia pone/ 1996 Flight, Barr & Barr (Worcester), Plate: (she// mot/f) c. 18 13-20 Flight & Barr (Worcester), Tr/o: (gropes) c. 1800 Collections Miss Betty Quelhurst The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art Three works gifted: Mr Michael Myer and Mrs Ann Gamble Myer Betty Quelhurst, The barber's pole 1955 One work purchased: Betty Quelhurst, The convenience store, Breakfast Creek 1955 Wong Hoy Cheong, /n search of faraway places (from 'Migrants' series) Betty Quelhurst, The red coot (se/fportro/t) 1947 1996 Professor Alan Rix Two works gifted: Commissions Shoji Hamada, Hexagonal vase c. 1970 Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd Shoji Hamada, Rectangular bottle c. 1971-72 One work acquired: Mr Richard Werner Judy Watson, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, M/dden 1996 One work gifted: Richard Werner, Requiem for the sixties 1969