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

ART -BY -AIR EXHIT/TION Elbt Uonmoillt Dann TimHain! Mayor Opens Art Exhibition TUESDAY, OCT-oliEB9, 1962 - be ammoDalt Dalin DM MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1982 Ad Exhibition Opening To -day 'foss nsville and district people will hare the oppor- tunity of tracing the de- velopment of Australian art over the past century in an exhibition which will he on show in the Town hail from to -day until Thursday. l'he exhibition contains 3( top class paintings, whir, are insured, for 1:10,500.It is being staged by the Queensland Art Gallery under the spOnsorship of th Townsville City Council. The exhibition will be opo to the public from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m to 9 p.m. to -day, Tuesday and Wednesday, and fro 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Thurs- day. The Mayor of Townsville Alderman Angus J, Smith will officially open the dis play at 8 p.m. to -day. After arriving in Town Ville from Ingham on Sun- day, Mr. Laurie Thomas. tit director of the Queimsists Art Gallery, said that th tour was part of a plan t let the people of the Stat see the works of att whlc they actually owned, The art gallery was not for the use of the Brisban people only. It was owns by the people of the State and the trustees of the ar gallery had decided that it was time people In distant parts had the opportunity see some of the best paint logs which the galley owned. On the present tour Mr1 Thomas has stage" exhibi- tions in Cairns, Mossman Atherton, Innisfall, Tull and Ingham. He will velar to Brisbane from Townsville' on Friday. He hopes that this will b the first of a series of regu tar exhibitions to be stage in the country. The 30 paintings help shown in Townsville thl week trace the history obi painting from the Victorian" gold rush days, One of the oldest works by Conrad Martens. wh came to Australia in 1 and worked in New Sout Wales and Queensland. Other painters represente include Dobell, Drysdale Godfrey Miller, Eric Breit and Margaret (alley. Each painting represents a step in the development o painting in Australia. ',POST" Cairns, Qid. 1 9 SEP 1962 INNISFAIL SUGAR FESTIVAL IfIR ART tonere! tirs I c t.,, of 1-ot.fttl, te the be vett. ths 0115r ..r. ep!,,C1 (1 . oil -e. 1! N111 !:. ' ,+1 ---- - The City Council would like to start an art gallery in Towns- ville, the Mayor (Aid. Angus J. Smith) said last night. Ald. mlth was officially opening the Queensland Art Genet-ea exhibition at present on display In the Town Hall. He said the council plan- ned to build a new civic 'ware in Townsville. They would make sure it Included facilities for people of cul- ture, where they could ex- pand their ideas. However, it would be quite number of years front now, as the council had to meet other responsibilities, such as water supply and sewer- age, before they started on a new town hall. AId. Smith said the coun- cil was quite prepared to give any assistance to foster art In Townsville. He hoped the exhibition was the fore- tunnel- of many more. 30 Paintings The exhibition. contain- ing 30 paintings by famous and well-known Australian artists, will he shown In Townsville until Thursday. The director of the Queens- land Art Gallery, Mr. Laurie Thomas. said last night the exhibition was a good run through of Australian paint- ings from the early days to the modern day. He said the exhibition wee a trial for future elan- ',mons, which he hoped would decentralise the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. "I would like to see this kind of thing done more re- gularly to bring the State's treasures to the people," said Mr. Thomas. The aim of the display, as well as tieing a trial for future exhibitions, was also to stimulate support for a new art gallery In Brisbane. The present gallery was much too small: it could hold only 80 of their 300 paint- ings at the one time, he said. About 100 people had visit- ed the exhibition since it opened at the Town Hall on Monday morning. The display of paintings, which are insured for f18,500, include works by William Dobell, Russel Drys- dale. Conrad Martens, and Elloth Gruner. INSURED for £18,500, thirty Auskra- lian paintings from the permanent collec- tion of the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, are now on display in Innisfail at the Cultural Centre and will remain open for public inspection until to- morrow afternoon. portrayed by artist S: T. Gill Gallery. Mr. Laurie Thomas, landscape paintings of the The Director of the Then there were the great who Is travelling with the tit te seit's from such artists collection, told the Evening I as Sir Arthur Streeton, Tom Advocate today that the ex- ; Roberts and Fred McCubbin hIbition set out to make I These were followed a historical run-through of I through the first world war Australian paintings from period by productions from such painters as Gruner and George Lambert and the be- ginning of the modern period by William Fritter and mote contemporary painters 1 562, was followed by others , such as William Dobell, Rua- in sequence showing thelsell Drysdale, Eric Smith and gradual development of Aus- Godfrey Millar. trallan painting from what ' Millar, Mr. Thomas said was purely derivative eigh- teenth century English style to what was now known overseas as a very important contribution to painting as a whole. EVENING ADVOCATE nal ism IL 1.10.1062 Paintings from State gallery can now be viewed at Innisfail the colonial days to the present time. The first painting - one by Conrad Martens-done in "TERRIFIC IMPACT OVERSEAS" Australian art had made a terrific impact overseas dur- ing the past three or four years, Mr. Thomas declared. An exhibition of Australian art, which the director of It will leave by T.A.A. air - the Wititechapel galleryhad come to this nation and, craft on Wednesday for Ing- ham and Townsville after selected himself, had causetij the exhibition closes here to - British critics "to go a bit af teethe crazy" when it had been din- morrow played in the United King- dom, he continued, FOUND STRONG Those critics had declared REACrION IN FAIL NORTH that Australian painting was, eiblie reaction in the far the most vigorous being done north had been most en - in the world at the present' enuraging And very favor- lime. able. Mr. Thomas reported. This had kept on building The collection now in Innisfall, Mr. Thomas pro- l"t''. Nearly its many people corded, attempted to give a had signed the visitors' book brief or potted hIstory, through a fetv examples of in Tully as in Cairns. -city see s its own art gallery ROCKHAMPTON hopes to become the first provincial city in the State to have Hy own branch of the Queensland Art Gallery. Rockhampton mayor (Aidernian Pilbearn, 31.I..A.) said yesterday It was planned to house the gaiters in the auditorium of the City Hall. Alderman PlIbeam said the proposal to set up a branch gallery had been discussed at a meeting in Rockhampton last Fri- day. The art gallery director Mr. L. Thomas) had attended. "lie promised to assist us In every possible way." Alderman lailheam said. "We have already set up a committee with my- self as chairman." SEE COUNCIL He sald the committee would meet this week and would approach the city council In the following week to make a formal request for the use of the auditorium and to have some neces- sary alterations made. It would also ask the trustees of the Queens- land Art Gallery for per- mission to set up a Rock- hampton branch. OWN WORKS Alderman i'llibeam said It tins hoped that the Queensland Art Gallery In Brisbane would he able to supply exhibi- tions of paintings to Rockhampton, "After all, the gallery belongs to the people of. Queensland, not lust to lirkbane," he said. ,thierman ellbeam said that In time it was hoped tie. Rockhampton Gal- lery tumid build up col- lection of Its own, his would still like to see tit exhibitions she,'-,, I Brisbane. had won a travelling scholar- ship worth fI300 awarded by the Rubienstein cosmetic or- ganisation. This was based on the selection of ten to twelve artists, who were each re- quired to submit five paint- ings . included in the !medial' exhibition was a still life study by Queensland artist Margaret OUey. The exhibition has been shown In Cairns, Mossman Atherton and Tully how Australian painting had'eel' because had t grown to its present position there was a very strong art group in. Tully . I brought why Some of these represented The reason , - on iit rigs away from the early gold -rush days, a- --` I ti 'simile, Mr. Thomas con- tinued, is because of in- terest displayed In these areas. The exhibition is serving ptwo CP. purposes front my view - The first is to bring the paintings to the people who own the gallery. They come from the Queensland Art Gallery %%thief) is not the Brisbane nil as I I ery. STRESSI:1) NEED FOR BETTER GALLERY 'I he second piteous° Is that I hope the exhibition will eira, politic attention to tiiiecii,lances need for a new gallery and headquarters if tt-e :ire to do our Joh pre- p.! ly for the State. \Ve have sonic situ paintings and ran only show so at any one given time. \Ve must have a bigger set-up in Brisbane to enat-le us to provide for dismays in provincial centres. _Rockhampton hits already applied to he made a branch of the art gallery. During re -construction of its town hall. It Is expected that provision will he made for this facility. I expect that other cities and towns will follow suit. We will thus achieve de- centralisation. I hope to soon commence fainanceeamPaign to obtain better headquarters for the to senor bigger and Herr. In lirisl,i1110, its a, M11.4 its present location u. the old ellineert Kali In the icenslitucl 5115(1115 on, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane. Jett Mr. Teoutas. 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