International studio (59.1916)

The National Galleries of Queensland and West Australia

Harry Hine, R.I. The black-and-white section
includes a drawing of a Norman Porch by Mr.
G. H. M. Addison, which was one of the first works
of Australian origin hung in the Royal Academy.
Most of the Australian works in the Gallery are
by Queenslanders. The leading artist of this
group is Harold Parker, who is represented in
sculpture by The First Breath of Spring (which
has already been reproduced in The Studio) and
Esther, the marble head of a girl, which was the
first work exhibited by the artist at the Royal
Academy 1903. Since then he has been a regular
exhibitor at the Academy exhibitions and has
shown at the Paris Salon, where his Prometheus
Bound was awarded an honourable mention in
1910. The artist’s masterpiece is the Ariadne
which was purchased by the Chantrey Bequest for
^Ciooo and is now in the Tate Gallery. There is no
other work in marble which
symbolises the tense sadness
of despair as does this forlorn
but beautiful figure ; it places
the artist in the front rank of
British sculptors of to-day.
The typical outdoor scene
Under the Jacaranda is by
Mr. R. Godfrey Rivers,
Honorary Curator of the
Gallery, and instructor of
drawing and painting at the
Technical College, Brisbane.
Mr. Rivers studied at the
Slade School, where he won
the prize for landscape¬
painting in 1884 ; he exhibited
at the Royal Academy and
the Grosvenor Gallery before
going to Brisbane in 1891.
He has another work in this
Gallery and is also represented
in the Sydney Gallery. Mr.
W. G. Wilson, who has two
original works and several
copies of Old Masters in the
national collection, was a
student at the Royal Academy
Schools, where he was awarded
the silver medal for the best
copy of a picture by an Old
Master. Other well - known
artists, such as E. Colclough,
J-H .Grainger, Oscar Fristrom,
F. Vida Lahey, and Lilian
Chauvel, have works in the
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Gallery. There are several canvases by artists
from other States, notably A Jewish Quarter,
Morocco, by W. Beckwith Mclnnes of Melbourne,
a good example of the work of this rising young
artist. There are also paintings by Julian Ashton
of Sydney and the late John Ford Paterson and
Mrs. Muntz Adams of Melbourne.
Miss Bessie Gibson, who is a frequent exhibitor
at the Academy and the Salon, is not represented in
the Gallery; neither is Mr. Rowland Wheelwright,
whose work is to be seen in three of the English
provincial galleries. Mr. Wheelwright, who was
born at Ipswich, Queensland, studied art in Eng-
land and has exhibited at the Salon and Academy.
His best-known work is his striking picture of
Joan of Arc as a prisoner, which is familiar
through engravings. The artist has earned a repu-
tation as an animal painter.


UNDER THE JACARANDA