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

, ll tOl Til U lt l fJlh . l l HUI uu I 11111 u Ire· ure!> have ht en !,ho"n 111 , u .. u1. · AUSTRAI.IAN painter E. Phillip Fox's " On The Beach", one or 11os1 cye-catchini: or lhc Australian paintinj?~ amoni: th,• j?allcr)"s own collection. 1e of 97 paintings hy Hopper on displa y fro111 the Whitney ,. of the visiting t•xhihitions. ------ QlJf.ENS I.A 0'- new url showplace bas more than ~700 sq m ur xbihition spucr in IS galleries. Thi~is a ,lew or 1he u~trullan con1rmponiry llllllery. Five exhibitions to mark the gallery OP-ening TWO WEEKS of festivi– ties planned around five visiting exhibitions will mark the opening of the Queensland Art Gallery. The ga llery's ed uca tion section has planned activi ties to highlight exhibition themes, and to give gal· lcry visi1ors a wider perspective of 1hc works on dbpla y and periods repn:sented. There will be music recitals. po• ctry readin gs. lectures, l"ilm scree nings, a workshop in kite– making and 1raditiona l Japanese tea ceremonies. The five visiting exhibitions on loan for the ga llery opening are: Masterpieces from the Idemit– su Muse um of Arts in Tokyo: Town. ountry, Shore and Sea: British drawings and watercolors from Van Dyck 10 Na sh: Th e \ mid nf Edward Hopper; Re– naissance bron1.cs from the Victo– ria and ,\lhert Museum and re– naissa nce bronzes a nd relatccl drawin gs rrom 1h c Ash111nlca r1 Museum. Oxford : aml Kandin – sky. f'ca luring works b 1hc :1r1is1 fn>rn 1hc collcc1ion or 1hc (iug– genhcirn Museum in cw Y,,rk. The lde111itsn exhibition is 1he fi rst major cxhibition nf Japanese a rt in Au s1ralia . Ma ny nf 1h c works included arc classi fied by Japanese :rnthorilies as irn pona nt cultu ral properti es. Thin y- 1wo picces of ce rami c art. and 5 1 paintings on succns. ha ngin g s ·rnlls, hand scrol ls and in album, an: included from Japan, hi n.1 and Korca . Work- from Kn ndinsky. one of the pivn1a l fi gures in the develop– ment of moclcrn art. arc hav ing 1heir fi rst Ou ·cnsland showing a, part uf an usiralia n c ·hi biti on. l\ nndin, k ·\ wnrk mark, the 1rnn– si1ion l"rnm reprc,cn1atin nal u, ab– ,1ract pain linf. in wha1 ha, bccn declared the rnml ra dical dcp.1r- lure known to arl of the 20th en– tury. " Ren aissa nce Bron zes" ha s been drawn from the renowned British collections, the Salting Collection at the Victoria and Al– bert Museum in London, and the' Ashmolcan Museum at Oxford. The ex hibition of' I 00 British drawings and wa tercolors from Van Dyck (1599- 164 1) to Paul Nash ( I !!89- 1946) has come from the Fi tzwi lliam Museum at 11 111- bridge in England . "Town , Country, Shore and Sea" charts the development of' the English landscape and watcr– color tradition from the earliest topographical studies in pen and ink to the classical tradition. The collection encom'passes t"ree cen- 1uries of British art from the hands of some of its greatest mas– ters. and is one of the largest exhi– bitions of works on paper to tour A USI ra I ia ' ••• The l"ift h of' the major opening a11ra 1ions is "The World of Ed– ward Hopper." an ex hibition of <)7 pai nting,. drawings and prints b , America 's foren1<is1rea list art– ist of I his ccnllir) . Ilopper. con– siden:d 1he 1110,t pe net ra Ii ng chronicler of' meri ·an life bc- 1ween the Iwo world wars, record– ell dail life in ci ties and country 1own s with l'rank nc,s, inlimatc sympath y ancl a touch of melan– choly. The Ilopper e hibition is from cw York 's Whi1111:y Museum . and drew thousands 10 the Arl Ga llery of South Austra lia when it npened al the ,\dclaidc Festival in pril. dmis~i,ln w 1hc cxh ibiti un ,. with Ihe except ion oft he ldcmi1 , 11 1reasurc,. \l ill he l'rec of .:hargc The rcc for 1hc ld c111i1, 11 c, h1b1 · 1inn will he ~4 I'll!' .,dults. "i1h fami ly tickets al $1 2 allowing en– try for two adult.s and up lo five children, or one adult and up lo six children. The fee for children, students and pensioners wil l be $2. Maj or paintin gs and works from the ga llery's collection nf more •han 5000 pieces also will be on vic\ 1 from tuda . One ,,f th e gallery's mos t fa – mous pa1,:1ings is l'icasso·s "La lk llc Holl a'ldai, c," painted in 1905. William Dobcll 's "The ypriot" and Rus ·ell Drysdale's "Back Verandah" arc among fa– mous Australian works in the gal– lery. Pain ting, 6CUlpture, prints, drawings, photographs, decora– tive and applied arts and crafts arc in the collection. The annual Trustees' Purchase Ex hibition, one of the richest of i1s kind in the country, provides a survey of curren t painting a wd l as a source of acquisi tion for the contemporary Australian collcc- 1ion. An pri1cs in drawing. print· making. anti sculp1L1rc have a sim– ilar aim. The ga llery's Brit ish and Eur - pcan works form an import an t pan of th e co llection. A small group of European works in par– ti c11l :1r includes a number of masterpieces. With the gift of Major H:rrold de Yahl Rubin in 1959, the gal– lery acquired seve n imporlunt f'rcnch paintings: three Pica. sos. a Degas, a Renoir. a Toulousc- 1.autrec and a Vluminck. whi h formed 1he foundations of an im· portant European collection . Mo, 1 rece nt acq uisi ti ons in– cl ude a Ru bens, "Portra it of a Youn g Lady, " th e Tin toretto "The Res urrec ti on," Anthony :111 0 ck 's " Porlrai l of t he M.m:he,c filipp, Spinola" and l·.do11ard uill 11 rds\ " Le ~Ion d, , Ik "cl."