Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 8 : Pressclippings, 1977-1981

•••••••••••• ~IRS, l'l'ONNF: H,4f. SO~I, o,·ltlt one o/ IMr lole /to,1/,ond'• palnlin11 al th• D r I • /, • n • W'om1n'1 Club. Artist~s widow starts a seholarship •••••••••• ONE of A111trall1'1 beat known landscape artists is to be .remembered in an annual $4000 acholanhip that hu been announced by the Queensland Art Gallery. The echolanhlp II • memorial' to MeJvlllt HaYIC)m who lived In Brl,bane and died In 1897 at e•1. He wu known aa an art crtt.lc u well u an artist. TIie tcholantitp llal been established bJ hit wldew, Mn. Yvonne HaJIOIII, who 11,ea at Bardon. She p&lntl, too, but hard!J touched a bruah when her husband wu alive "becauae I relt I just couldn't compete." Mn. Haysom IIVII 1ur• rounded by her hUI• band's landecapea and r1111re palntlnp. Her conatant compan• ton la a portrait 1he painted of her huabtnd before he died. ' "He wun't well, and CO U 1d n ' t 1lt 1t1Jl ror Iona" 1he aald "and It dldn:t rullj, come out u "'.~lJ u It could hl.ve done." The 1cholanhlp 11 a travellln1 one and la ror arttatl up to 25. It la for up to three yean at art lnsututlona In Auatralla or oveneu. Appllcaala have to aabmlt one oompleted pa Intl n r plua three drawlnp ualnr aa\Unl forms. Entry forma are avail• able from the Queens– land Art Oallery. Entrlea close on June 13. 'l' h e Haysoms met when t.hey were studying at the National Oallery Art· School ln Melbourne In the 1920s. Both were born ln Mel– bourne. They came to Queensland In 19:19, The meeting meant the ~"d of Yvonne Haysom'1 palntu z. " I d l d n •t have a hope," she aald. "I couldn't paint the way I wanted to paint." Melvllle Hay.om waa a.warded the Coronalloo Medal In 1953 for hi• ltr• •Ices to art and wu a Ule member of the Royal Queen1land Art Socleti•, HI• work 1• repre•ented In the Queensland Art Oallery, the Darnell Col– lection at the Queens– land University and In many private rollectlons,