Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

'Gallery's biggest single gift The Queensland National Art Gallery has just received its biggest single gift of paintings -25 Contemporary English and Continental water colours. lite itt,,,,,ntataat lawn 1,,, ,,,,,, , ntudr 1))' :1 11 1'0 11 ,i1-...)1114 1111/./,.,1) soar a OW 1.1..1 woman. Mr, Lucy C11.1111111011.111.11/111(-11 111.1.111/1111)111 1111). '3/1111111-1111. 1,1/1111(11/, V110, .floe uIltry Hobert said today Iliat, Iht, 25 who -It had 'arrived. a ere coo. AT\ at',ch aloud at 1:600. They nook! gate tire gal- lery one or the best small vollections of cornemporar3 English watercolours of 11N gaper, ht .%tistralia. Fluty were an est renti-ly :rood collection and included works by many artist:, who:, work was not known in Aus- ialia. but who were well known In England. the Con - ,went and America. They Included the works of important artists such Frances Hodgkins, Roland Suddaby, W. S. Sickert, P11,- 11111 Ciibl). Christopher Wood. Jahn Slel%alle, V. Pitchforth. Kenneth Hall, Kathleen 1tValne, Eileen Holding. and Contiental painters, Com- mon French I. Basil. It ml linkoczl, The works have '1 ell to be mounted and fronted. 'Flies will be hung in the new Near .smi a special exhibition of them will be held. Tintoretto check going on The Director of the National Art Gallery ,Mr. Robert Haines, is continu- ing investigations to estab- lish if one of the gallery's paintings Is a.- original Tintoretto, or not; The painting is "David Lamenting the Death of Absolom" and is attributed to Tintoretto, the Italian 16th century master. When Mr. Haines rebuilt the gallery recently. he discovered this work And another attributed to Titian. another Italian master which had not been shown for years. Be hung them in the main bay of the gallery. Ile considers that the work attributed to Tintor- etto is more likely to be an original than the other. If either Is an orieinal at all. It was bought by the gal- lery from London in 1910, but there is no history of the Painting with it In indicate its previous owners. Mr. Ilaines has Mond that painting at first thought to be the work of Alma hem 'renters is mils that no his more famous brother. David. David Triflers stars one of the Flemish school and benefited by the guidirnee of Rubel's. Sir, Haines says the irork Is extremely ty piral of ibe Dutch school of the Period. "English Landscape." by English artist Holand Suddaby. one of the 25 contemporary English and Continental watercolours which have been presented to the Art Gal- lery by Mrs. I.. S. Wertheim. of London. The works. conservatively valued at £600. will be followed by anothey 25 oils if the first lot are well received here. Old needlework art in gallery showing Beautiful needlework, some of it centuries old, which has been presented to the Queens- land National Art Gallery by a Brisbane woman, will be exhibited at the Gallery next week. 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The paintings. some of which are expected to cause controversy, were given to the gallery by an English art collector, Mrs. Lucy Car- rington Wertheim. In her Regent Park flat in London valuable paint - tugs ere said to be stacked three feet deep along every wall. When Australian art authority, Robert Haines, was In England on a Brit- ish scholarship two years ago, he was promised a int of 25 contemporary French and British watercolours if he were ever appointed !director of an art gallery. Now director Mr. Haines was made director of the Queensland National Art Gallery last year, and the paintings, valued at more than 1750, strived recently. They Include works by the well-known modern artists Sickert, Suddaby, Wood, Pitchforth. Hodgkins, Wattle, and Gommon. The pictures are now being framed. and will probably be ready for show- inc by February 15. Mr. Haines said last night: :The works will possibly appear quite start- ling to Brisbane people, but all of the artists are re- spected abroad" Fire was close A small shed in a laneway off Little Roma Street. City, was destroyed by fire at 9.30 last. night. The shed was only 15 feet from a picture framing workshop where modern art palittings worth £750 were 'being framed. The pictures were recently donated to the Queensland 'National Art Gallery, and !were being prepared for dis- Iplay. 1 The shed was owned by Mrs. Kate Allen. of George 1Strert. and used as a work- shop. "' I EGRAPH" Brichnne, QI(I.