Wieneke Archive Book 4c : Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings

THE COURIER -MAIL THURSDAY FEB. 13 1975 1 $20,000 private gift to gallery A LEADING Australian art collector has given art works vrlued at $20,000 to the Queensland Art Gallery. He is Mr. William Bowmore, of The h.11, Newcastle, New South Wales, where he is a private hospital proprietor and admin- istrator. Mr. Bowmore, born at Dalby and edu- cated at Nudgee Col- lege, has given seven works by the Spanish artist Ruiz-Pipo, who studied under Picasso. They are three oil paintings, three black -and -white etch- ings, and a colored lithograph. Gallery director (Mr. R. Mellish) ex- amined some of the works (above). Mr. Mellish yester- d a y described Mr. Bowmore's gift as im- portant, and one of the larger gifts made to the . gallery in re- cent years. Mr. Mellish said: "Mr. Bowmore is nne of Australia's leading a r t collectors and connoisseurs, and his private collection con- tains at least 1000 works. "Ruiz-Pipo is a dis- tinguished European painter, basically a figurative artist whose 4 work shows the in- fluence of Picasso. "These are the first works by Ruiz-Pipo that this gallery has had, and they may he seen when the gallery opens in its present preliirses towards the end of next. month." $3 MILLION T h e exhibition rooms of the gallery are on the fifth floor of the M.I.M. Build- ing, Ann Street, City. The gallery collec- tion has an estimated value of more than $9 million. Mr. Mellish said: "Increasing interest is being shown in the gallery by generous donors in Queensland and interstate. The gallery has even re- ceived a considerable gif t promise from California." MR. BOWMORE