Wieneke Archive Book 3 : Moreton Galleries 1960-61 Presscuttings

ART REVIEW One painting outstandifig THE dominating picture at More- ton Galleries' Winter Exhibition la Arthur Boyd's large oil, "Hampstead Heath in Winter." Boyd is enjoying hung abroad as one of Australia's foremost moderns. This painting, crusty as bark with its background of trees, glimmering with Its foreground of fallen snow, seems to show how tradi. tionally-based his modern.. Ism is. It is a beautiful thing which, though very differ- ent, appears to belong with the traditionally ex. pressed it, scene - elms aroun The exhibition is a collec- tion of oils and, watercolours 1-)y such A,ustra..an artists as Nano Heysen, Sir Lionel Lindsay, G. K, Townsend, Robert Johnson, and James R. Jackson. Inland There is a small William Dargie beach subject. A Carrington Smith pen and watercolcur sketch is as clear as a complete state- ment. Two small inland-Austra- lia subject -pieces. done in tine oil by Sam Fullbrook, "Cockatoo" and "Girl with Kangaroo," stand out for the social emotion they present, Rubery Bennett's "Flooded Crossing," with its amber glow and sense of nostalgia, is notable. The exhibition is open for two weeks,--D.R. Winter show at Moreton The winter exhibition at the Moreton Galler- ies. AMP Building, Ed- ward Street. consists of selections of the works of a number of well- known Australian ar- tists, Sir Hans Heysen is represented by two water colors, Pastoral and Elms In the Cotswold. Also equal in quality are G. Tovinsh9id's Hawkesbury W a t e r a, Yachts in the Bay, and the White Cottage, Car- rington Smith's The River: John Rowell:s Clear Light of Morning; Roland Wakelin's A Hot Day and Rubery Ben- nett's After Rain. Arthur Boyd's Hamp- stead Heath in Winter is a striking work carried out in an almost mono- chromatic fashion with the use of heavy impost°. It is the picture of the show. Paintings by Maud Sherwood, Sam Fulbrook. !and Dargie round off the display. .5 boldly, in direct, cleanly - handled washes decep- tive in their simplicity. Ile is fully aware of the interest value of lost and found edges and employs them satisfactorily in his RECENT WATER-COLOURS JOHN ELDERSHAW 21st AUGUST TO 1st SEPTEMBER 1961 40.11,1fr WATER COLORS BOLDLY DONE MELVILLE IIAYSOM John Eldershau. Australian water colorist. it presenting an exhibition of Ida paintings at the Moreton Galleries. AMP Building. Edward Street. His WOI'K is carried out - Paintings for considera- tion: Water's Edge, A By- way, The Watering Place, Grey Morning, Flood Waters, The Boatshed and Bridge in Autumn. The last has special compositions. appeal. Here is a selection of Telegraph, Tuesday, The Director of THE MORETON GAl I s cordially invites you to meet Mr. JOHN ELDERSHAW and attend the opening of his I \ HWITION WATER-COLOURS by The Honourable Mr. Justice C. G. WANSTALL, O.C. II 'I al THE MORETON GALLERIES on Monday, 21st August at 1.I5 p.m. A.51 I' rtis,tttl 11r1,1,.ons