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

have the brightest round-up social scene. I t h brlru: ,n•r:1 h-' l.iunr ·,t HrlrlU u \\ 1111rnn ,,ho ti,,., htr ri11 ~tr ,m th, ,,uhc cil) •~ llr'" 1.lu11~ lm.., IJrt n ~rltin~ ~bout Bri"t tHtl\'h lts tur thr 11.1 t 12 ~ra n,. • he lolfl\\ '."t \d 11,t I!) huµp nh11t, \\h t•rt· .wt.I "hon1 llrr fln,t It1lu1un tur u, .tfJJlt,\r, h,~r1·. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 It un, 1111111111111I11111111,111IO1111111111,, u :i;;t 1uHa and tile)' !.,,n• k nl lt to llll' ,:.11l{r} 10-· l\\O ~•(>;_\ r-.. T HE John exhibition Queensland Art Gallery opened to the public on Friday. Glover was n wealthy, we I g h t y Engllshmnn with ruillni: eyesight and two club feel who emi– grated to Tasmania In 1831 a t the age of 65. He is reputed to be the first prolcsslonnl art1st of note to sellle In Australia. It look John l\tcl'hee, curator of fine art at the Q u e c n Victoria Museum and Art Gal– lery In Launceston, three years to gel the exhibition togr 'her. John, who was in Brisbane for the dual purpose of attending the ornctal 01icnlng llnd giving a public lecture about the artist, said of the 59 works Joa prl\'alc col\l'ct1nns. The cxhlb\ ~01 ,~aa dcl:larcd o,,r11 to h c;('lcl't gathrrln~ on Ttrnr:-itL,y e,·cnin~ hy th ' c11rn:l'l H: chi1lrmn11 of the 1'healrf• Oonrd of the Au, tr,1llu council , Urhrn S\\rc\ucy. Amon~ the i;u t!Sts were Rud M<'Culluch, ,,r 13nr• don, and his Wl1i..' Dlan1th, who wore a while iubulnr•slim g0\\'11 finely striped in red , blue and ~rccn 1 t.crtrudr Lun~er, Mrs Joyce Corinne, of Everton Pllrk, S•ndrn Ulack· burne. or Vcron~a. l'eter and HIiiie Crocker, of Dorrington, Connie Frew, of Ascot, In cream cheesecloth, Char I e s l\tarlln, of St John's Wood, his artist wife l\tarJorle, Slim Sumtncr– vlllt, president of the Brlsb11nc Chamber of Commerce, and his wife Beth, of Herston. Also nl the opcnin • were Budcrlm residents Jack nnd Jenny Manton, who must be congrntu• laled for their recent generous gesture lo the Nntlonal Gallery or Vic• torla. The Mnntons arc said to have the largest prlvlllc collection or Im– pressionist paintings In ,1 uurt·l' il '\1 n rtrnM-'II llr Fl\t T rvt' POl k , " ho ,, n:, ae< onq,anh•d b · h u:-.b ~\ rttl l harles, al:-.U wn"' \\"C'Hrtllt-: il drcM, mudc rum cloth :-.he brm11!11l ba('k from over· srns. T t rquoisc silk ramc from. South K orl!n. There were many guests with d ose l111ks wit h the art s m ch1dlnc .. Sancy Underhill, who is both llcad of lhC Fine Arts Depanmcnt at the University of Queensland und a member ol the Vlsual Arts Board. Others w •re Mclnnes Gallery owner lleruurd l'hnrc a nd his wife , Tlna (who looked ~real In " clnsslc Ii ttlc bluck drc s) and Verlie Just of the Town Gallery. She tells me the 1:al· lery, in Queens Arcade, • has been extended con· sldcrably. The fl rst one•mnn '" sh ow of the year should be partlculft rly Interest– ing. The a rtist will former Q ueensland Gallery trustee Arthur Read , who Is in E nslnnd .