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

It's titne to visit the Queensland Gallery which glo\\'5 with layer& o! rich enamels. WHILE most of the private art galler- ies are going Into rer.css over the holiday period the Queensland Art Gallery remains open except for Christmas Day. ART REVIEW by Or Gertrude Lange, Wrl11ht's painting In the Tate Gallery, which in– cludes the lllus\on\stlcal• ly rendered frame. was shown In the I\luslon and Reality exhibition. K e I\ h Looby'• ,•ery good as well 115 witty set o! et.chlngs "The OlallS Serles Photographs," and one of hta Jorge Class s er 1 e • paintings <not shown at present> hu been bollght al&o. Until J11,nuary 4 there Is still time for In• &pectlng Recent Acquisi– tions 19'77. Funds a\'R\IRble !or purchase ~one realises money ls a problem) ha\'e been spread m ainly In two. quite different, dh cct,ions: A group of I8Lh a nd I 9 Lh century English rlrnwings nnd watercolors 1t,hrY lncl11de Tutnrr. Rlchnrd Wilson De W I n t . Cotm nn . ' O n\11• sbnrnu~h. Rowlnnd~on. .John Olorcr nnd 01 hen: 1. to~ether with a porl rnlt rl r n w I n " b)' French pn,hllcr ,I. B. Greuzc. The other m ain spcnrl · in~ WAS on Austrnllan Urin'l :H f,ii;ts. F I r s l I y , ntl.en liM \s drnwn tn lnE:c Klnr.·•~ mnJcsllc sculpt.urc Grenl P\nnct. whir h wl\l he np· prerrnted more fully one da~• in or out5tde Ihe new gallery t.hnn It Is possible now in the en trnnee or t,he 111.1.M. Building. The dereptl\·ely simple form - n. lar~e curn~d disc l\'ith I\ circula r h ole - o!!crs a ,urpr\sm g ,·arle ,. o! aspect~. each of them most elegant and quite mR clc. N" W - find not H' nei;,.· - ri'nh m wn~ rrwour"c\. or recently painted landscapes we ha\'e Tim Storrler's kodachromatlc • n d s op or I r \ c Aerial Landscape: John l,en– n ox's Paradise Found w\lh seurat-1\ke repose and patient dot ting: Jell 1\1 a k \ n • s Tlbbrogargan from his rrccnt s11ow ln Brisbane: .John Rl~hi··• Mog~lll Vllla~c In Dernin or !~u,·e period style. One 1s pleaserl thot .la• net nawson's Fox~• Night. 2. wmnrr of this yrar·~ T n 113lecs Prize. hRS been txmght. * 1' h c ~~·llnry ?\'nlRn Cent.rat Austr:ll\a lnnd– srnpe 11965' Is renninly welcnme. The two un– d1t1"rl. buLevldenll)' enr– ly. Arthur 110yd lltnrl– scapes mny be JusU!\ed mRinlY for a.rt -hi. tor\cal rea ons: that ls a~ enrly examples of an lmpor· tant arust. or I.he two. the sombre. scru!!y Ga!fne)"s Creek h~s more character than the Berwick Lnndscape, which \s not helped ei– ther by the "art)'" rrnmc. As It Is important I-hat our St.ate Gallery should focus on Queensianders (by b\nh or adoption\ of mer:t, one is ~lad to see Virginia Cuppaldp'• very New York School "Uassan'' lher Trustees Prize entryl. and als<> be– cause hcpes nre dim for the foreseeable tuture that the ga\lery would buy one or more tmr,ort.– anL works or American Contemporary Art. 'The g'Aller y hns dnnc not too badly with ~lfl,S anrl bequest., thIs year, nnd not nil cnn be men– tlcncrl. The GePrJ~ Rrnwn Beque•l had been )·enr and a selection Is lnclurled In this d\spll\y. 1.111\nn Bosch ndded to IH•r previous gtl't.-; ome \'ll!UAble prmts, such as R n etching by ,lenn FranMls !\Ullel, R rlnassn l11ho~rnph. on enlCl'a,·l n~ by Ren NlcholsPn, and an exciting l\thograph hy Sonia Delaune,·, who was one o! the most Impor– tant. avAnt.-garde woman painters or the 20th cen– tury. So we h R ·e C.f'orf I.a \lrrd1l"'liii nhnto- renlisdr ·c trnnm·· 1n pon.rrut nf Ch n nr1 1cr c ,wrnll'''' htw•. 11 u1 10 Bu: nrnthr r !lC"alr . Thr y -o;e ha,·c l.eonard t~rrnch'i- ornth nf R Cirn rnl. fl"'('!m his series Denl h of 1l TlC'\'OIU 1nn. p1HntN1 1!)74-ffi, \llld 111· p1rNt by fl ~fl\l h Atnrri - l"lll) 1011 1: nn nioof. sol– emn and t.ymbo\\c iKon II I" nnt 11 c ..,1,r whH'h ctn•c. A n nrn\t 1h r q11nl · 10 11! prr!-PIW<' n-- 1·1111 hr ~"I'll Ill 11\t' -.nw11 dmW – \llC "~1rlll \\ ' 111 ~ lo'' hf .Jr,· l1r..,1rr , n11r ni th 1dft.i, prC"•Plll "<1 thl:- yrnr h\" 1hr Gnllrry ~or lety, . 11,m P' rr. Clrn nn~ wnrks \\ i"\1 . /ii n pninlinr.. nrlnfh•hl Conk'"- ~uprrh trnnsln11m1 in10 clrnrro:,l nnd ron c or ,Jn,~ph