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

Early colonial artist was strange mixture thot Um• In •llhor Sydn•Y or Hobart, who ,p,cl•ll••rl In ,1111 Ille, but, It ,..,ma, he was only able to m•k• • m•••"' lll'lnK with his polntinJa. LATELY, there hu been .. 1rowln1 Interest among acholan In the earlleRt, not 10 1ophlatlcated, colonial art. Rn, al p-1, we hive at the QuHnaland Art Oallery an nhl• bit Ion al pain Un•• and drawln111s by William BUelow OOUld, which hu i..n auembled bf tht Burn- It Art Oaller,. . Oould'I lift pnor to hla eon– •lctlon laaeordlnl to lht cata– lolutl had NIii a 1tranp ml.a• ture nf lnvolv,ment with artlollc output, a 1trnn• llkln• lor drink, 1t1Lmblln•, anrl dw,111n1. on the edlliP. or crtmlnal 110cl•t1·. He had b..n wnrklnJ with the Oerman lltho•rarher and print– er, Rudolph Ackerm1nn, who had ..t up buslr••'" In The Strand. H• 1IM hi~ lrs.,nn• lrnm Wil– liam Mulrt'day. R.A~. a •enN! and landscape painter, who wu an admirer or tht 17th centurJ Outcll Bcllool. . Of comw, a rurtl'9 1lanct at Oo11ld'1 llt.lll ur11 of fruit. nowen. ffiill! d••d fish, and d••d 1ame lmm•– rl1ottly N!VO&I• thl• Ill mn1 ln- 1111,nc• of the Dutch Little Mu– lero. Gnutd lflflff'I• t,.. r.-,·rl In " ('lar• t I c u I a r I y n1<w.eat1n11 subject, which he present& "pN!tUly", namelJ a lot of dead llllle birds, HII rim elu,nce ta paint In Van Dlem•n·, Land c!Llnt wh,n he wu -1snec1 U bou• ltrV&nL tn th• Cnlonlal l!lur11110n Dr J1mf0 Rcntt. Dr Sr.nit WM 11n am11e11r n1t11- rall•t and u.,d Oould to m•ke botanical 1tudl111 or naUv• pl1nta. Al ,x1mpl•• htre 1how, Oould w•• • meUculoua botanl.al lll111- tr1tnr. · 1'he , • .,,,.•,preclll1on, lndN'd, WIii b• nntlcfll In hi• atlll 111.a. A• hll experlerw:it. rrew, IO did Illa naturalism. We IHrn from I.he catalorue thaL Oould wu I.be onlJ artllt at l rln nnt l'<ln•id,r Onuld In ho 1·e IM-•n" nAlve nr prlmlll•·e po1nt~r. l """ him, r~!htr. II ll ~lilJtnl, nf"t, n11tl41 11nt11 1 nr,rt. nnt. ,·,ry ori•lnal, rother merllncre utlst. He cnul!I b, ,-ery rlumll}' nnd ltlfl •omPtlm••· IUl!I, II b•~· arhle,•erl " decorat1,·t, delalltd naturalism. -DR GERTRUDE UNGER