Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

r... ;, • . ~~ ;;.:· ... l ~ ,r, , . .. "~'-· DR BEHAN with the Jacob Epstein bronze "K1tt1", which he gave to the Queensland Art Geller,. A cr11h COUrN I~ Latin would fore embarking on • meeting wllf man Behan, the man behind t Behan Collection. And a swot ur on the Greek ph, I might help as wel . A conversation with the whimsical. ver-haircd collector of beautiful works lian art is spiked with long quotations 1 He loves to roll the classical langua off his tongue and then ends up stump1 tener by asking: "Don't you agree?" He seems to appreciate thoughts be put into the language that has sent sh into the hearts of multitudes of school c But then with the mixture of English in, accompanied by side-dips into the (, losophers, he brings art to life better per most other experts. The more than 100 paintings, dm pieces of sculpture in the Behan Colle like children to him, and he knows each mately. Take the portrait of Sir John Fran kh ample, a Governor of Tasmania in 1800s and the man the Franklin Rive, dam controversy and High Court de named after. Artist and scoundre It's by an artist and scoundrel called Griffith Wainewright and the whole 1 comes much more interesting when Dr gales you with tales of Wainewright a was sent out to Tasmania as a convict a soning his wife and then following th, trying to kill off his mother-in-law for tune. He got away with the first crime, bu , caught up with him before he could des next victim. Wainewright was a society artist in and exhibited at the Royal Academy. In Tasmania he managed to wheed k back into society and was allowed to r• traits while under guard. I