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

"TELEGRAPH' Brisbane, Qici "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Ald. A OFT Ole GIVEN TO GALLERY A famous Australian Painting will be given to 'the Queen*hind National Art Gallery soon by the trustees of Sir John and Lady Chandler Citizens Appreciation Fund. The painting, in oils, is Sydney Har- bor from Darling Point, 1559. by Conrad Martens, who is re- garded as the first im- portant Austra Ilan painter. It was acquired from a private collection in Sydney for 350 guineas. The trustee's chair- man, Mr. R. Dobson. announced the gift to- day. The gallery director, Mr. R. Haynes, said today: "Martens is regarded as the grand- father of Australian painting. "The gift will be a treat acquisition." f "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, Qld. Brisbane, Qld. '17) Quality in artist's exhibition By gels ille Hay sons Queensland artist Vida Lahey has a retro- spective exhibition of her paintings in the Assembly Hall of the YMCA In Edward Street. Her work hardly needs introduction. It has always been noted for splendid crafts- manship. superb color, and composition, feeling for the subject and art content. These qualities are evident In this show, which includes paint- ings back to student days. Works for attention in- clude Mountain Flowers, for its perfection in the handling of intricate pat- terning; The Challenge, White Zinnas in a Yel- low Vase Spring Flow- ers and Pink Azaleas, for their color appreciation: Wild Lobelia, Crocus and Bachelor's Buttons, ant Fragile Things. as superl examples of paintinc int light. The Queensland Nat tonal Art Gallery. Ore gory Terrace. is showin a tnost intorestine collec tints of di:. wings by tw distinguished British nr Lists, Sir Muirhead Bon and Augustus John New Art Gallery scheme State Cabinet nest y04.1. will consider the question of establishing n new sand per llllll 14.1111 .% ri Gallery. The Premier. Mr. Nicklin, announced this on his return to Brisbane today from the Cabine meeting at Rockhampton The Education Minister. Mr. Piney, yesterday ob tinned approval for Us State Government's an nual grant to the Ar Gallery to be increase from £10,000 to 12,000. Not Centenary project The Lord Mayor. Ald Groom said yesterday h hoped something could b done for the achievemen of a new Art gallery a part of the Centennr Year projects. Mr. Nicklin said to- day that it should not be a Centenary project by the Government be- cause the Government had decided that its Public building Cen- tenary project should be extensions to the Public Library in William Street. Mr. Nicklin sold Um a body of citizens per haps might feel incline to sponsor the establish ment of a new Art Gal lery as a Centenar project In co-operatio with the Government,/ Art Gallery grant gets £2000. rise THE State Government's annual grant to the Queensland Art Gallery will be increased from £10,000 to £12,000 The Education Minister (Mr. Pizzey) announced in Rockhampton last night that State Cabinet had ap- proved the increase to help maintain the status of the gallery. Mr. Piney said the addi- tional money would meet increasing expenditure and help provide additional paintings, reproductions and sculpture pieces. The grant was last In- creased in 1955 when it rose trom £7000 to £10,000. 'Too complacent' In Brisbane yesterday, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Groom) said that the city was far too complacent about its lack of an ad- equate art gallery. He was officially opening the Augustus John and Muirhead Bone exhibition of drawings at the Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, with Its present gallery building, "let down" visitors to the State who expected to see something much better, he said. "It would be a good thing If the dream of a new art gallery could be fulfilled on an improved domain and gardens area at the bottom of George Street," he said. Ald. Groom said he hoped something could he done for the achievement of a new art gallery as part of the Centenary Year pro- jects. "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Qld. a 0 JUL 199 Citizens' chance to assist art PUBLIC-SPIRITED citizens had the chance to make a real contribution to Queensland's Centenary by sponsoring a permanent art gallery for Brisbane, the Premier (Mr. Nicklin) said yesterday. Private endowments had provided excellent art galleries in some other capital cities. "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, QId. 4 :1 Pregairommos. On the SPOT - with NEU. GROOM wilaggtegigeldWearialtraffgaf STATE Speaker A. R. Fletcher tells us that Parliament House will be a bright place indeed for the ses- sion starting August 19. Reno- vated staff quarters, super kit- chen, new servery, fluorescent lighting, even paintings borrowed from tie Art Gallery. The staid old House hasn't had NO much activity inside it since the Labor split. Mr. Nicklin said the State Government had not the funds to build an art gallery next year, but would be pre- pared to help a privately - sponsored project in any way it could with its limited financial resources. The Government's Centen- ary project was the remodel- ling and extension of the Public Library in William Street. Gallery site . Cabinet next week would consider a possible site for a permanent art gallery, Mr. Nicklin continued. Site sug- gestions included: The Supreme Court building in George Street: the old Gov- ernment House now used by the University, in lower George Street; and a river - front, area adjacent to the Botanic Gardens, beyond the old Government House. Before a site was selected, the Government would confer with the Art Gallery trustees. "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, QId. Startling and stark atom art exhibition One of the most startling and stark art exhibitions to be shoot' la Brisbane opens at the Art Gallery tomorrow.. It consists of a series land Melbourne, where by 24ft., depicting the of eight panels, each eft.' they drew viewed vrecedordtheeim'owdsin, horror that followed the ' dropping of the atom hushed silence". 1945. continue until A bomb on Hiroshima in The exhibition will The paintings are the work of a Japanese hus- band and wife team, let Maruki and Toshiko Akamatsu who lived in the bombed city and who sketched from life-and death. Included in the exhibi- tion will be the original sketches from which the artists worked. The director of the Gallery, Mr, ftobPr Haines, does not exoec any controversial renction from the public. He said that in Sydney