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

ABOVE: " Die Alta Hofhalrung," a pen and brown ink watercolor with highlights in white over traces of pen– cil. The painting, by Samuel Prout I1783- 1852). is part of the collection of British drawings and watercol- ors from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge. 8 Sunday Mall Co/or, June 20, 1982 The Queensland Art Gallery RIGHT: Another painting from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection is " Oxford, from Headington Hill," by W illiam Turner. of OxfOfd 11789- 1862}. The medium is watorcolor and gum arabic over a pencil outline. The picture is 34 cm by 52.7 cm. RENAISSANCE BRONZES TOWN, COUNTRY. SHORE AND SEA: BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS FROM THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM Two e.hibitions organised by the Queensland Art Gallery will also have their Australian premlere openings here. 'Renaissance Bronzes' hH been drawn from the renowned British Collections; the Salting Collection at the Victoria and Al– bert Museum, London and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which will also sand related drawings chosen to complement the bronzes. Perhaps no art form is more indicative of the Italian Renais– sance than the bronze statuette, which reached the height of its artistic achievement in northern Italy in the early 16th century. The sculptures were made for the enjoyment of the wealthy, the educated and the humanist collector. This exhibition contains 38 bronzes and 16 drawings, which provide a rare opportunity for Oueenslanders to study and admire an art form which has re– tained its fascination throughout the centuries. An exhibition of 100 British rlrawings and watercolors from Van Dyck (1599-1641) to Paul Nash (1839-1946) has been of– fered by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K. The exhibitions entitled "Town, Country, Shore and Sea," cherts the developmBflt of tha English landscape and watercolor tradition from the earliest topographical studies in pen and Ink through to the classical tradition. The collection encompasses three centuries of British art from the hands of some of its great– est masters and represents one of the largest exhibitions of works on paper to tour Australia. I