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

J\IODERN l\lASTERS art exhibition officer-In-charge, Mr Gordon Bare Hudson, checking the Van Gogh p a inting "The Stevedores at Aries" at the Queensland Art Gallery yesterday. Only people wearing special white gloves m a y handle the paintings. T 1, e Sl.500,000 nrL I rrttsure Is orr,unbly tl10 TtlO!-L ,·r!lt1:1h!P pn.lnting In the Thy.!>rcn•Bornr- 111:s,a Collcc1 Ion now In Br1;:;b:111e for fill C:\hll i· t1on "hlrh will stnrL on Fehrunrr 1:•. The xhihll Inn Is !-1)011, orrd 1n l~ 1f"rnt.– l,tnct IJ\" T hr r our.Pr– . ln!I ,,ncl 13 l'Q Clrnnnel ., nml \\ ill W lllll\Ut: ,:r.– t ! ~l:1rt·ll :W. All r 11,e, Vnn Gn~h ,,·,.s rrn,r ,·rcl r ·nm ,hr, twn 1'1: ,.r~ or pnrlrl!nt: nnd tnk 11 UL nf It brnwn pAprr wrnpp!nl,l. , 1r Hurtsnn t·~n1l\111cd It. "JI tnok me three hn11rs tn mnkr my m– l' JUI ni:.. r!=' ll1'.:':llL nf thlti pRtnllnr. lnl'a yPf1r," he :-1hl. " Now I know r '.'• rn ::r:1 111 of 11 •· · I ,·nn rt L'"J.:lll~C frQm n (111.l'k 11,snrr1 !nn nnw n•,\' 1 h1!~~ I hA rcn't seen bc1orr," By ANDREW McKENZ IE hands Van Gn!!h p aln t~d the riverside scene nt, Aries, on the Rh one. In tho sottth or Frn nee. in 1888, A the t lmc, he wrote tn l11s brother T heo tn P,,rls: " I hn\'e scrn n mnµ:rd ficcn t nnd very ~t rnnµr t f fnrl r,h lo; ,,\'r– nmg. A rery large bnat Inn cl e d w I t h co• I moorrd n a qunl on the Hhnne. MIM Building •·The wntcr wns or n. w 1, It I s h-yellow and cloudy pea rl gray. the ,kv lilac nnd ndcd nrflncr n sunset, the town \·Inlet.. "()n the boa~ t he tiny \\nrkcr~. hlue nnd d irty whit<'. cnm111~ nnd J:?O· mi:. cnrry111~ thetr cn r– go 10 lnncl." T he collrctlon Is on dlsplRY RL the Queens• lnnd ArL Gallery In the 111 I M Building, Ann Street. Galler)' hours nre 10 n.111. w :; p.rn . Mondny to Snturdn:. extcndin~ u, n p,m. Frlctny and 2 r m. 10 s r.m. on Sun– day. Admission I n r t It e exhlbl ion • w h I c h Includes 107 works by 08 American end Euroncnn modern mMtcrs nrc S2 nrlult.s nnd SI ror chlldren, pf'nsloners and stu– dent•. M•Jor " 'orks by Mo– ne • Degns, Lautrec, Pl– cm::so. )r1nnc1rtan. M:H?r .. It to. 11ormnn nnd Pol• lock nrc fcnturcd.