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

5,,. 1904 'Phone; MU 5133 AUSTRALIAN PRESS CUTTINGS Melbourne, Victoria From - . ,',.:5,F 'Queen portrait A William Darele portrait of be Queen Elizabeth II will 'on view tional Art Gallery fort threea weeks frorn to-day, Darele painted it to commemorate the 1054 Royal visit. ._ ......_____ "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Aid. "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, aid. .13 OCT 155E `Rock' in art, too 'PRICELESS! "DOCK 'N' ROLL" existed 1% in pointing es well as in entertainment, Q lend Notional Gallery chairmen of trustees (Mr. Edgar Ferguson) sold lest night, He was opening the 1956 Henry Caselli Richards Memorial Prize Competition at (he Gallery. "We have one or two examples of rock 'n' roll in art hanging in the Gallery to -night," he said. Mr. Ferguson said behind the establishment of the r. Bruce McLeod. of the the hone that from it might ierlbeal the pots as Richards Competition lay Market. lhiley road, emerge a northern Austm- "priceless." Ilan tropical school of paint - He said such a school might influence Auatrallan Painting generally. Portrait prize The Australian Women's Weekly 1956 Portrait Prize exhibition was also opened at the Gallery last night by Senator Annabelle Rankin. Five of the 50 Pictures hung were painted by Queensland artists-two by Jon Molvig and one each by Betty Quelliurst, Margaret 011ev. and Bronwvn Yeates. The exhibition included entries from London, the U.S.A., Belgium, and Canada. "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Aid. 19 NOV 1956 "NEWS" Adelaide, S.A. ANTIQUES' FOR OLD. A pair of Chinese wine pots more than 1,200 years old, from the Tang Dynasty, have been discovered in a suburban antique aler's shop. "The pots were bought for a song with other secondhand goods," he said today. "There is no market here for treasures of this kind. and the Queensland Art Gallery is keen to build up its collection of Oriental art, so I gave them to the galler Mr.McLeod said the pots were made of iron. They would have been used to serve warm rice wine. 0"/ 1"1,1,U I ,11.11,1, llllllllllllll I 1' I VI. WANTS 'TROPICAL ART GALLERY HERE QUEENSLAND needed a new "tropical" art gallery like that in Honolulu, the National Art Gallery director (Mr. Robert Haines) said yesterday. Mr. Haines recently re- lion of pieliires and a fine turned from a six -week selection of Oriental art. visit to the United Stateiellieet.tiegieellast.idmIniatistit,,l1,1,11(1tiont..1 He officially opened fin caption. The FlenGhilli exhibition of Australian' building was not vast or furniture in New York. JtvIllitilelltel, hill matched hi, hp the ellinnte with es cool a special inspeetion of the:stone brick and stucco. Honolulu Art Gallery-"justi Mr. Haines said: "I feel he sold. the kind for Queenslnlid,"; stionely Ilse Queenslneci gallery needs to good Mr. Hid tips id the Oriental colter! lout, bees use Honolulu gallery bond it lie. like Honolulu, are steel: number of galleries open- ,e,buti "Pillitbrutt's to titP ine on to courtyards. out- "st." of -door settlptere, and fro- The litinoliint yeller,. at - Dice I gardens. trai fed imirritsfiee. it Ineet1 The gallery was lien t, pleesit to . ltd It 11',1S 11 airy, nod ,rosiness and centre tor nom mull And coninined n In Mr voile, ehildreies art elesses. E1 19e4 'Phone; MU 5133 AUSTRALIAN PRESS CUTTINGS Fror, Mc I bourne. Victoria "COURIER MAIL" Brisbane, Gild. ART REVIEW by DR. GERTRUDE LARGER FRENCH SCULPTURE FOR LOCAL GALLERY RECENT overseas acquisitions for our own gallery, as well as a loan exhibition of recent acquisitions of contemporary Australian paintings by national galleries of Australia, are now dis- played at the Queensland National Gallery. Important purchases for important one is "Little the trustees by the director Rachel" by Walter Sickert This Picture which has been. (Mr. Haines), while abroad, purchased from combined include three pieces of Tunas of the Trustees and the National Gallery Society, is French sculpture. an ex.imple of Slckert's beat, Our gallery may pride u- notabld for the beautiful self now on possessing one handling of pigments as well of the much -coveted bronze as for this artist's sympathy casts (rem mast erineces in for eople. wax nd clay by Dedits, which W( also possess now an werea found in the great earl: oil by a richly gifted dp,ataiiiitle.r's studio after his Brit.sh painter, Christopher Wood, whose painting career was cut short by an untimely u Infinite labour death at the age of 29. "Seine Quays ide" shows casting of these fieures , charmingnate t f THE preservation and the e ng andhis instinctive Wood's e Y o (only 20 ra,tss were ev,rlis of sense for placing shapes. eachi is entirely due to the infinite labour and desotien "Head and Shoulders of a of en Italian caster, Palazzole, Girl." by onecoonftemEpnogrlaarnides's. We are fortunate indeed to leading possess the little "Dancer," Matthew Smith, whose esYamna which combines an astonish- entities are with Maim ingly natural pose and great ls, is remarkable for vi.mity with perfect mini_ Mastic vigour and vivid. saturated , ()lour. A large brium of plastic vtumes. The other two sculptures canvas by Ineodore Garman, are smaller replicas of Rodin's given by Sir amore and Lady life-size "Age of Bronze" and Emit, ssit,,e, in towardsleans the sambeo i e ms todr mode one ot no. finest works "The Crouching Women." of expression. Among the retellings ac- quired in London, the most Est. 1904 'Phone, MU 5133 AUSTRALIAN PRESS CUTTINGS Melbourne, Victoria From "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, Cald. - ' )NE of the first put - chases made from the Half Dozen Group of Artists annual show at Centaur House was a masque, a small piece of sculpture by guest artist. Erwin Guth. It was bought for the National Art Gallery by the Director Mr. Robert Haines. Mr. Guth . a New Australian, who conies front the Saar lives at Camp Hill. Lovely thing GRANDMA Moses, whose - lovable art Is well-known from much publication. may now he directly enjoyed in a charming painting given by the Gallery Society's Women's Auxiliary Committee, The Loan Exhibition of National Galleries is on view In the Print Room. If I could take one of these pictures home I would choose the John Passmore, a lovely, poetical thing, born of an authentic experience. The next choice would be the J. Carrington-Smith; from the subtle colours and serene architecture of "Studio Window" arises a tranquil mood of "otherworldliiiss." Square dance TWO paintings by Godfrey Miller show a more cere- bral approach; rigorously con- trolled is the dance of count- less minute multi -coloured squares which fill the surface. Margaret Lewers' "Abstract" is handled with the freedom of Intuition. Dobell's "Giluwa" is more striking than satisfying. Other paintings of interest arc Eric Smith's large de- materialised "Still Life," Jean Bellette's crisp and fresh one, Jean Appleton's Cezanne- influenced landsenpe, and her more Independent "Still Life," further paintings by Lawrence Dews, Tate Adams, A. E. Read, James Gleeson, and Wallace Thornton. Paintings from Melbourne had nbt arrived at the time of Preview but will be hung to. clay.