Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1997-98

- ~ ='\ i exhibitions 'Living Culture' and 'Emily Kame Kngwarreye'. Transportation, insurance, documentation and packing/unpacking were undertaken for the 204 objects brought to the Gallery for consideration for acquisition through purchase and gift. These included seventy-nine objects from Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, which required international transportation and customs clearance. In addition to the objects borrowed during the year for Gallery– organised exhibitions, a further five objects were received as loans for general display with the Collection. The Gallery lent forty-three objects to other institutions for exhibition purposes, including the loan of Sydney Long's The spirit of the plains to the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Russell Drysdale's Bush fire, Man feeding his dogs and Back verandah to the National Gallery of Victoria for the Australian tour, Cindy Sherman's Madame de Pompadour nee Poisson and Untitled #129 to the National Gallery of Australia, and the recently acquired Rachel Whiteread Twenty-five spaces to the Museum of Contemporary Art for exhibition in Sydney, Adelaide and Wellington. Twenty– six objects were lent from the Collection to State Government offices, bringing the total on loan as at 30 June 1998 to 206 objects. The stocktake of the Collection continued with the holdings of Australian Art, International Art, and Prints, Drawings and Photographs being checked. 1/, ~VIAA1;?~~ 29