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

z P1111111111111111111111.114r., "COURIER MAIL," Brisbane, THE COURIER -MAIL WEDNESDAY MAY 26 1954 15 LAST GALLERY !VISIT WITH CLASS OF FUTURE ARTISTS QWEENSIANG artist Hiss Vida Lahey has taken her host Saturday class of future artists and art -lovers at the National Gallery, Gregory Terrace. Since 1941 she has been guide to art for 254 chil- while many show enema - Unobtrusively coaching dren. aging possibilities. selected boys and girls Some of the children. from Brisbane's primary whose ages ranged from 7 "The primary aim has not schools in the funamentnls to 13, were with her for been to make artists of the Of art. two years. children, but hand in Last night the Gallery After Saturday visits to hand with their own de - director iMr. Robert the Gallery, the children velopment, through them Haines) announced that made their own creative to produce more sensibility .else had resigned, and that experiments in drawing, and interest in art in the her associate. Mrs. H. painting, and other art future." McNeil, would take her forms. place. Mr. Haines' comment: Her lade "Miss Lahey has probably Few people knew of Miss Miss Lahey's summing- done more for art. in this ahey's "foundation -lay- up of her task: "A small State than any other per - mg work. number show very definite son. especially in her But she was the first promise of attainment, teaching of children." "COURIER MAIL," Brisban Vida Lahey is retiring I DESIRE, on behalf of the Queensland National Art Gallery, to express publicly an apprecia- tion of the services of Mirs Vida Lahey, the well-known Queensland artist, who has after many years' valued ser- vice to the cause of children, art, ceased her classes at thr Gallery, Miss Lahey began thee( creative art classes as a means of providing guidance and direction in art to chil- dren drawn from Brisbane schools and, in this work, the Trustees of the Gallery were happy to Join. Now, after many years ol painstaking instruction, Miss Lahey is able to look back upon many hundreds of hours of work, and many students assisted along the road of understanding in art. At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, Miss Lahey was thanked, on behalf of the Gallery, for her services, and presented with a book on alt as a memento of her years of service, and in appreciation of what she has done for many "Queensland artists of the future." - E. A. Ferguson, Chairman of Trustees, Queens. nd National Art Gallery. URIER MAIL," Brisbane, Qld. U f9t,u I is it /long lea art sesam he tsi-il.tissaill 001.01 A iniNTING Ihnl it., orit.titial Corot is on loan tor Iwo relss to 'the Courier -Mull art num.' trout the Queensland National .% rt I- 1,0 11.111111,1,1111111111, ,1111111,111111111111111,,1' .111] hoot. It the ft upi,r1 13,000 TELEGRAPH,' risb IN appreei,ii ian Of her work as ,rather of the Children's Creit it e Classi's at the Ni t tonal Art ( itillery. Nit, Villa Lallc, was the Irrihicin of a in f's.,11../1111111 11 - S01111111011 1011,1,011 01 a 1.11,1,11)11' 1/001: 011 all. .11111 Ills 111:111e by the chair- man 01 trustees NIr. Edgar 1.'1i a:cani who paid t :bate fo the r- ViCes l'el1111.1 1',1 10 all in Queensland by Mi:,s Lahey. who, until her re- signation. had held the position of teacher since 1941. "COURIER MAIL, Brisbane, Qld. Gallery trustee Dr. N. 0. J Behan has been appointed a trustee of the Queensland National Art Gallery, to replace the late Professor J. J. Stable. Dr. Behan has specialised in collecting works of art by outstanding Australian at - "COURIER MAIL, Brisbane, Qld. 'Is Art patron field Dr. D Norrmean Bardon Behan. of Girar- , B - :mile, alto has been am. mini ed a trustee of th. Queensland National Art ,Gallery. Is one of Queens- a est know art n cpollectonatros forof lr end an 5t yeses. Itin Dr. Behan was a founda- tion member of the National Gallery Society of Qiieens- land. Is a member of the executive of the society. .1 donor of works of art to the Queensland Gallery, and works from his collection have been displayed on the Courier -Mall art panel._ "TELEGRAPH," II31oRbEast Intl; 15110tZieri nuclei evening at thirisbane IQueensland Oirls' Sec- ondary Se110015 ' Club to. night. The speaker wil be the Director of. till Nat-Until Art Oalle:'y (Mr Robert Haines) who wilt talk on the apprectatiot of art. "COURIER MAIL," Reisbane Pictures show "pioneer" city EIGHT pictorial records of early Queensland -seven drawings and one watercolour-ore on dis- play in The Couricr-Mail vestibule. They are the work of English -born Conrad Mar- tens, who supplied the sole watercolour, "Brisbane, 1881," and Sylvester Diggles, an artist, entomologist, and first organist at St. MarVa. Kangaroo Point. Bottle Tree, 1851, and Coochin, October, 1851, are Marte,is' other drawings. Males' records are: View from New Farm (1858). For- titude Valley (1858), Kan- fromPo (18581, Viev Kangaroo Poir (1858), and North Brisban from the South Side (1858). Librarian The collection is being ex- ibited by the courtesy of he Trustees of the Queens - and Art Gallery. -" Art Gallery Director (Mr. obert Haynes) Is anxious o know if similar drawings xist in Brisbane. Sylvester Diggles' draw- ings of Brisbane date from 1834 to 1858. His work on Australian birds Is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Conrad Martens arrived in Sydney in 1835 and later Jetted Queensland. From 883, he was Assistant Par- lamentery Librarian in Syonudneyntil and d held th. the posi- ti his ea Visitor found harmony and rest in art gallery MAY I, as a visi- tor, voice my a p predication of your Art Gallery? The little effort regoired to get there is well re - Warded by the atmosphere of S11111 11:111T1011,: ipst. In 11:. 111(.11' ,,:, I I. I (1111.1V 1),,, CI a nn it, erillig And A :"..1o,1111,11 From Vic. VIDA'S CHANGING OUR CHILD ART vim I ItIIEY. of Brisbane. will stitched art in NIellnninte and Europe, has probably done more to help Queensland's child art than any other Australian. Painting and teach- ing have kern her life. The other day -she gave up her Saturday morning children's classes at the National Gal- lery in Brisbane alter ten years. "Most people merely exix.ct child artists to do grown up work badly." she says. "But the new approach is to let a child paint from his imagina- tion and his memory. "Ask a am dl child to draw and al- most invariably he will draw a house with blue sky. brown earth and mmy and daddy somewhere in the foreground. "Became these' are the things of which his mind is mostly aware."