DOI Heft:
No. 241 (April 1913)
DOI Artikel:The public art galleries of Australia
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0235
The Public Art Galleries of Australia
" lotty AND the lady " (Felton Beqttesl', Melbourne) by geo. w. lambert
Charles Conder can hardly be claimed as an Aus-
tralian artist, but it is interesting to recall that he
began his career in Sydney, where he painted
Departure of S.S. Orient, which hangs in this gallery.
The gallery in Adelaide is smaller than the other
two, but it has the best-selected collection. This
is due in a great measure to the judgment shown
by Mr. H. P. Gill while director of the gaMery.
Dignity is given to the collection by three varied
examples of the work of Watts. The trio consists
of Love and Death, a subject the artist painted
several times. This is a large canvas which was
purchased for ^2500. A charming study of his, A
Nymph, was bought by Mr. Gill in London in 1899,
and a portrait of Tennyson in his peer's robes was
presented by Watts to the gallery when the poet's
son was Governor of the State. Pictures by Water-
house, Cayley Robinson, D. Y. Cameron and others
may also be singled out from the group of oil paint-
ings. Perseus and Andromeda is an interesting ex-
ample of the work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, which
like his larger Annunciation is almost a mono-
chrome. Two distinct incidents of the legend are
dealt with in the decorative composition. There
are a number of attractive paintings among the
modern works. The power of suggestion is con-
veyed in Clausen's Rickyard, Winter, where the
rough outlines of the figure on the right is suffi-
ciently emphasised to preserve the illusion. Water
Meadows, a characteristic landscape by Mark Fisher,
is another well-balanced composition. There is a
strong impression of an old seaman by Emile
Claus, and Harrowing is a typical example of the
art of H. H. La Thangue.
South Australia has produced four distinguished
artists, all of whom are represented in the
Australian collection at Adelaide. The quartet
consists of Hans Heysen, who is now one of the
leading landscape painters in the Commonwealth;
Hayley Lever, who mainly paints marine subjects,
and has exhibited at the Academy, the Salon, the
New York Academy, and the International at
Venice, and who has this year been invited to join
the International Jury of Award at the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh; H. S. Power, our leading
animal painter, whose hunting pictures are among
" lotty AND the lady " (Felton Beqttesl', Melbourne) by geo. w. lambert
Charles Conder can hardly be claimed as an Aus-
tralian artist, but it is interesting to recall that he
began his career in Sydney, where he painted
Departure of S.S. Orient, which hangs in this gallery.
The gallery in Adelaide is smaller than the other
two, but it has the best-selected collection. This
is due in a great measure to the judgment shown
by Mr. H. P. Gill while director of the gaMery.
Dignity is given to the collection by three varied
examples of the work of Watts. The trio consists
of Love and Death, a subject the artist painted
several times. This is a large canvas which was
purchased for ^2500. A charming study of his, A
Nymph, was bought by Mr. Gill in London in 1899,
and a portrait of Tennyson in his peer's robes was
presented by Watts to the gallery when the poet's
son was Governor of the State. Pictures by Water-
house, Cayley Robinson, D. Y. Cameron and others
may also be singled out from the group of oil paint-
ings. Perseus and Andromeda is an interesting ex-
ample of the work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, which
like his larger Annunciation is almost a mono-
chrome. Two distinct incidents of the legend are
dealt with in the decorative composition. There
are a number of attractive paintings among the
modern works. The power of suggestion is con-
veyed in Clausen's Rickyard, Winter, where the
rough outlines of the figure on the right is suffi-
ciently emphasised to preserve the illusion. Water
Meadows, a characteristic landscape by Mark Fisher,
is another well-balanced composition. There is a
strong impression of an old seaman by Emile
Claus, and Harrowing is a typical example of the
art of H. H. La Thangue.
South Australia has produced four distinguished
artists, all of whom are represented in the
Australian collection at Adelaide. The quartet
consists of Hans Heysen, who is now one of the
leading landscape painters in the Commonwealth;
Hayley Lever, who mainly paints marine subjects,
and has exhibited at the Academy, the Salon, the
New York Academy, and the International at
Venice, and who has this year been invited to join
the International Jury of Award at the Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh; H. S. Power, our leading
animal painter, whose hunting pictures are among