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

Gnllery bnnrcl trustees p r c s i cl e n t ( J\'I r. J usticc Connolly) lookint,: nt n Germnn ~cul pt ure. ·'M a 11 Rr ndlni:\ In t h c \Vinci: ' at the ga llery ycstcrcl n,y. •l il 2 3rd , l)? P on job Art.to travel around State The Qutffltlen4 Art Galle,y"t now 1,oard of tru1tte1 prethlent (Mr. Ju1tict Connon~> wont • ta tokt the t•llery't collection oraund the State. He sald Inst night he s.~s.· the gallery as the nucleus or a continual tril\'l!ll!ng exh ibitions. The gallery·s collection was won h m illions of dollars and r an ged from the works or Picasso to Rodin sculptm·es to ce• rnmlcs br Queensland artists, he said. • \lr. Justice Co1molly. formerly a barrister und Q II c e n · s Counsel, and now a Supreme Court Judge, has been a gnllerr board member since 1967 and vice-president since 1071. Sculpture His elccUon as prr s1• drnt. wa.s announced last. night by the Oo\'ernor lSir James Ramsay) at t11e open In g of t he "nl• ler)·'s latest exhlblt,\on, the sculp1.ure of German nrtl t.s Ernst n., rlach and 1,athe Koth,il,z. Jllr. Justice Connell)" r~plnoes S ir Leon Tro"t ~· h o di"<! ea,rlr this month. S ir l=n hnd been presid en t since 1967. He said the gnller;– shoulct s~rvc u,~ whole Stnie, 11ot. Just Drlsbnne. He would rlel'cJop n r,roC'edure ror sendin!l !e• lectio1,s from the co 1 lec• , tlon throughout Quee11s· Janel. ~lr. Ju ·tlce Co11nollr said he also v;n11ted to Jnvoh·e younger people In the gt\llCl'Y, Ho ho•>ed t.hc mcimcy n the b'onrd "'Ollld be filled by omcbod;· l11tcr• r.st.ed In r ounger oeoplr.. Mr. J ust Ice Cnn1101l'' nld the ne"· QueenElnnd Art r.J!ery ln South Brisb: ne wn , e. l)l'C~d to opPn In 1!lO!?. ''ll'e Hre " smull gnllery , , l n small or:;an- 1.-~H1on." h~ '-'~i. "Tl1e new rinllery .,;11 be , he Sl'cond l• rgest 111 Au~lralio .·· Mr. A. J. l!!tr.\tlr;os 11·•s r.::i mNt the p:s.llerv's ne;,· Mnlor ,ice-president and Dr N. B ehntt 11s Junior drc-prcsiden