George W Lambert
born Russia 1973, arrived Australia 1886, England 1900-21
died Cobbity, NSW 1930
Portrait of a lady
(Thea Proctor) 1916
oil on canvas
purchased 1955
George W Lambert
born Russia 1973, arrived Australia 1886, England 1900-21
died Cobbity, NSW 1930
The red shawl 1913
oil on canvas
purchased 1934
George W Lambert
born Russia 1973, arrived Australia 1886, England 1900-21
died Cobbity, NSW 1930
The White glove 1921
oil on canvas
purchased 1922
Ralph Balson
born England 1980, arrived Australia 1913, died Sydney 1964
Portrait of Grace Crowley 1939
oil on canvas on cardboard
Bequest of Grace Crowley 1980
Ralph Balson arrived in Sydney in 1913, and was, by trade, a plumber and house painter, In the early 1920s he began classes at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School, before joining a small band of Sydney-based artists, including Rah Fizelle, Frank and Margel Hinder and Grace Crowley. Balson quickly absorbed their structural approach to painting, based largely on cubist principles.
Portrait of Grace Crowley depicts Balson's mentor, and reveals his experimentation with pictorial ideas introduced to Crowley in Paris by the influential teacher and painter, Andre Lhote. in a quasi-abstract style, a prelude to the Australian public in a historic solo exhibition in 1941.
Lloyd Rees
born Brisbane 1895, Sydney 1917-86, died Hobart 1988
Evening on the Bathurst Hills 1936
oil on canvas on paperboard
purchased 1952
James Gleeson
born Sydney 1915, England/Europe 1947-49,
Europe/USA 1958-59, died Sydney 2008
Composition 1939
oil on canvas
Gift of Arthur and Monica Pclkinghorne 1990
Russell Drysdale
born England 1912, arrived Australia 1923,
died Bouddi, NSW 1981
Sofala 1947
oil on canvas on hardboard
purchased 1952
Sofala is regarded as one of Russell Drysdale's
finest paintings, representing the artist at the height of his powers. With its compelling evocation of atmosphere and ambiance, the painting transcends literal description of the quintessential qualities of an in land Australian country town.
Drysdale first visited this former gold-mining
settlement in August 1947 with fellow artist Donald Friend.He made a sketch and took photographs but, as was customary for him, completed the painting in his studio on returning to Sydney.
In Sofala, Drysdale pares down the reality of the subject to its barest essentials, achieving and intensified synthesis of visual and emotional impact.
His modernist focus on the construction of mood
in this work marked a radical departure from the prevailing traditions of Australian landscape painting
William Rose
born Newcastle, NSW 1929, dided sydney 1997
Infinity 10 1990s
pen and black and coloured inks, pastel, watercolour
Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours
Benefactors Fund 2011
Sidney Nolan
born Melbourne 1917, England from 1955, died London 1992
Pretty Polly mine 1948
Ripolin enamel on hardboard
Purchased 1949
Arthur Boyd
born Murrumbeena, Victoria 1920, England 1959-71
The mockers 1945
oil on canvas on hardboard
Purchased 1965
Born into an extraordinarily artistic family, Arthur Boyd is considered one of Australia's greatest painters of the 20th century.
Robert Rooney
born Melbourne 1937, lives Melbourne
Canine capers III 1969
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Purchased 1975
born England 1929, arrived Australia 1962, lives ACT
Prompt Careb and how we never learn 1975
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Visual Arts Board Australia Council Contemporary Art
Purchase Grant 1975
THE BVLGARI ART AWARD
Michael Zavros
Australia, Brisbane b1974
The new Round Room 2012
oil on canvas
Thomas Francis Dicksee
England 1819-1895
Hermione 1874
oil on canvas
Purchased 1886
George W Lambert
born Russia 1873, arrived Australia 1886, England 1900-21
died Cobbity,NSW 1930
The belle of the alley 1913
oil on canvas
Purchased with funds from public subscription 1930
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George Washington Thomas Lambert
(13 September 1873 – 29 May 1930)
was an Australia artist, known principally for portrait paintings and as a war artist during the First World War
Lambert returned to Australia in 1921, where he had success in Melbourne with a one man show at Fine Art Society gallery. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1922. He often visited the homestead of Colonel Granville Ryrie of the Australian Light Horse at Michelago, New South Wales and there painted The Squatter's Daughter and Michelago Landscape. In 1927 he won the Archibald Prize, Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture, with his work titled Mrs Murdoch. Lambert died on 29 May 1930 at Cobbity, near Camden, and is buried in the Anglican section of South Head Cemetery
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