DOI issue:
No. 241 (April 1913)
DOI article:The public art galleries of Australia
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0232
The Public Art Galleries o Australia
"SUR LES TOITS" (Svdney) BY CHARLES HOFFBAUER
called The Poem is from the brush of Charles and-white artist and a former student at the gallery,
Wheeler, the most promising of the younger is represented by My Ancestors and Pollice Verso,
group of figure painters, but no work has been a pen and ink drawing which the trustees purchased
purchased from Meyer Blashki, who has made a for 150 guineas. The gallery contains no cartoon
reputation as a landscape painter in America, or caricature by Will Dyson, who should be repre-
Among the most typical Australian works are : sented in the Australian group.
Tranquil Winter by Walter Withers, A Mid- The trustees of the Sydney Gallery seem to have
summer Morning by Hans Heysen, Moonrise at had no policy except in connection with the
Templestowe, our finest nocturne, by David Davies, Australian collection, which is the best in the
and The Pioneers by Fred McCubbin, a painter Commonwealth. It is to the credit of the trustees
who has revealed much of the poetry of the bush that they purchased good examples of leading
in his landscapes. John Mather's best work is painters at a time when the trustees of the Mel-
expressed in his water-colour drawings, and Wintry bourne Gallery were rather shy of local work.
Weather, Yarra Glen, is one of his finest examples. But when one comes to the European courts it is
The artists we have mentioned are with one rather difficult to pick out the odd acquisitions,
exception Victorians, but Geo. W. Lambert, the fore- which are packed in an array of anecdotal pictures
most painter that New South Wales has produced, which frequently suggest the tranquillity of the
has one work in the collection. It is Lotty and early Victorian period. One must, however, single
a Lady (p. 212), which was shown at the Academy, out Chaucer at the Court of King Edward III, one
the Salon and the Franco-British Exhibition before of the best-known works by Ford Madox Brown,
it was purchased for Melbourne. Although the which was exhibited at the Academy when the
drawing of Lotty leaves something to be desired, work of the pre-Raphaelites was openly disdained,
this is an interesting example of a later phase of The Chaucer is said to be a portrait of Dante Gabriel
his art. Louis Buvelot, a Swiss painter who came Rossetti, and his brother sat for the troubadour in
to Melbourne in the sixties and was the first man the foreground.
to view the country with the eye of an artist, is well Among the best modern works are The Scoffers
represented. Norman Lindsay, our leading black- by Brangwyn, The Anatomy Class by F. Salle,
209
"SUR LES TOITS" (Svdney) BY CHARLES HOFFBAUER
called The Poem is from the brush of Charles and-white artist and a former student at the gallery,
Wheeler, the most promising of the younger is represented by My Ancestors and Pollice Verso,
group of figure painters, but no work has been a pen and ink drawing which the trustees purchased
purchased from Meyer Blashki, who has made a for 150 guineas. The gallery contains no cartoon
reputation as a landscape painter in America, or caricature by Will Dyson, who should be repre-
Among the most typical Australian works are : sented in the Australian group.
Tranquil Winter by Walter Withers, A Mid- The trustees of the Sydney Gallery seem to have
summer Morning by Hans Heysen, Moonrise at had no policy except in connection with the
Templestowe, our finest nocturne, by David Davies, Australian collection, which is the best in the
and The Pioneers by Fred McCubbin, a painter Commonwealth. It is to the credit of the trustees
who has revealed much of the poetry of the bush that they purchased good examples of leading
in his landscapes. John Mather's best work is painters at a time when the trustees of the Mel-
expressed in his water-colour drawings, and Wintry bourne Gallery were rather shy of local work.
Weather, Yarra Glen, is one of his finest examples. But when one comes to the European courts it is
The artists we have mentioned are with one rather difficult to pick out the odd acquisitions,
exception Victorians, but Geo. W. Lambert, the fore- which are packed in an array of anecdotal pictures
most painter that New South Wales has produced, which frequently suggest the tranquillity of the
has one work in the collection. It is Lotty and early Victorian period. One must, however, single
a Lady (p. 212), which was shown at the Academy, out Chaucer at the Court of King Edward III, one
the Salon and the Franco-British Exhibition before of the best-known works by Ford Madox Brown,
it was purchased for Melbourne. Although the which was exhibited at the Academy when the
drawing of Lotty leaves something to be desired, work of the pre-Raphaelites was openly disdained,
this is an interesting example of a later phase of The Chaucer is said to be a portrait of Dante Gabriel
his art. Louis Buvelot, a Swiss painter who came Rossetti, and his brother sat for the troubadour in
to Melbourne in the sixties and was the first man the foreground.
to view the country with the eye of an artist, is well Among the best modern works are The Scoffers
represented. Norman Lindsay, our leading black- by Brangwyn, The Anatomy Class by F. Salle,
209