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Tye's Gallery
Velasquez Gallery, also known as Velasquez Gallery at Tye's, and later Tye's Art Gallery, was a Melbourne art gallery that showed contemporary traditional, and later, modernist Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as Australian indigenous art. It operated from 1940 to 1955.Stephanie Taylor, 'Closing of Tye's Gallery' in 'Letters to the editor', ''The Age'' Friday 21 Jan 1955, p.2 History The Velasquez Gallery, located in the basement at the rear of Tye's Furniture Building, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne, was one of the few places to exhibit in 1940s Melbourne.Wendy Donald-Bradley (1991) ''Alannah Coleman: The Woman and her Role in Promoting Australian Art and Artists in the United Kingdom 1950–1990'', M.A. thesis, Melbourne: Victoria College, 1991 The gallery opened during WW2 on 4 June 1940 with an exhibition of work by Australian proponent of Tonalism, Max Meldrum, and "autumn leaves from Mr. Tye's Macedon garden decorated the gallery".''The Age'', T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Grimwade
Sir Wilfrid Russell Grimwade (15 October 1879 - 2 November 1955) was an Australian chemist, botanist, industrialist and philanthropist. He was the son of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade and brother of Harold Grimwade. An endowment by Grimwade in 1929 was used to create the Russell Grimwade Prize, a scholarship for study of forestry. As of 2018, the annual prize value is $40,000. In 1934, he presented Cooks' Cottage to Victoria after purchasing it in England and shipping it to Australia. He received a CBE in 1935 and was knighted A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the Christian denomination, church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood ... in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List. References Scientists from Melbourne Australian chemists 20th-century Australian botanists Australian manufacturing businesspeople Australian philanthropis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Beckwith McInnes
William Beckwith McInnes (18 May 1889 – 9 November 1939) was an Australian portrait painter, winner of the Archibald Prize seven times for his traditional style paintings. He was acting-director at the National Gallery of Victoria and an instructor in its art school. Early life McInnes was born in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, to Malcolm McInnes and his wife Alice Agnes, née Beckwith. Despite lack of family artistic tradition, he was keen to draw from the time he could hold a pencil. In 1903, at 14 years of age, he enrolled in the drawing school of the National Gallery of Victoria under Frederick McCubbin. Later he moved up to the painting school under Lindsay Bernard Hall. Artistic career He won his first prizes for drawing the figure from life, and for painting a head from life, and shared the prize for a landscape in 1908. Soon afterwards McInnes held a successful show of his paintings at the Melbourne Athenaeum Gallery in conjunction with F. R. Crozier, which was f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Bernard Hall
Lindsay Bernard Hall (28 December 1859 – 14 February 1935) was an English-born Australian artist, teacher and art gallery director. Early life and career Hall was born at Garston, Liverpool, England, the son of a broker of the same family as Captain Basil Hall, writer of books of travel; his maternal grandfather was conductor J. Z. Herrmann. Hall was educated at Cheltenham College and grew up in an atmosphere of culture. He studied painting at the South Kensington School of Art, Antwerp and Munich, and worked for several years in London. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was one of the original members of the New English Art Club. He exhibited with the club in 1886 and 1887, along with Clausen, Sargent, Gotch, Kennington and others. On the death of George Frederick Folingsby in 1891, he was appointed director of the National Gallery of Victoria and master of the School of Arts in Melbourne. He began his duties in March 1892. Hall married Elsinore Mary Shuter on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Campbell (art Gallery Director)
Robert Campbell (1902–1972) was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the first director of the Queensland Art Gallery and also a painter in his own right. In 1955 a portrait of him by painter Ivor Hele won the Archibald Prize. The first painting acquired by the QAG in 1896 was ''Evicted'', by the British painter Blandford Fletcher. Although it was the gallery's most popular picture, it was controversially retired from public display in 1949 by Campbell, who was the newly-appointed director, and who declared that it was only popular "because it had a sentimental touch". In May 1955, while director of the AGSA, he considered it was important to establish an Aboriginal art collection, which extended beyond the anthropological objects held by the museum. He also wrote a book on Tom Roberts. His wife Elizabeth wrote on art as "Elizabeth Young" for newspapers for New South Wales and Queensland, and in 1952 succeeded H. E. Fuller as art critic for Adelaide's ''Advertise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ranalph Jackson
James Ranalph Jackson (1882-1975) was an Australian painter, perhaps best known for painting views of Sydney harbour. Today, his work hangs in public galleries in both Australia and New Zealand. The Art Gallery of New South Wales has 16 of his paintings, however none are currently on display. Background Jackson was born on 3 July 1882 at Bunnythorpe, some ten kilometers north of Palmerston North, New Zealand. His father was George Albert Jackson and his mother was Mary Ann Julia Leach. George Jackson was a farmer from England and Mary Ann Leach was born in India. They had eleven children, including James. After Mary died in 1890, in 1894 the family moved to Darlinghurst, an eastern suburb of Sydney. Sydney Harbour made such an impression on James that it would remain a major motif in his work for the rest of his life. James left school at an early age to take up an apprenticeship with a decorator. In the evenings James studied drawing at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wheeler (painter)
Charles Arthur Wheeler OBE, DCM (4 January 1881 – 26 October 1977) was an Australian painter. Born in New Zealand, he arrived in Australia about 1891. In World War I, he enlisted in the 22nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. His Distinguished Conduct Medal (DSM) (1916) was awarded for actions at Vimy Ridge. He won the Archibald Prize for 1933. In 1939 he was appointed master of the painting school at the national gallery, Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... References 1881 births 1977 deaths New Zealand military personnel Archibald Prize winners New Zealand painters Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal Royal Fusiliers soldiers British Army personnel of World War I 20th-century Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Peter Quinn
James Peter Quinn (4 December 1869 – 18 February 1951) was an Australian portrait painter born in Melbourne. Biography He studied part-time under Frederick McCubbin 1887–1999, at the Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Art School under George Folingsby and Bernard Hall 1889–1893, then in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts from 1893–1901 under Jean Paul Laurens aided by a National Gallery of Victoria travelling scholarship. He spent time painting at the Etaples art colony in northern France, alongside other Australians including Rupert Bunny and Hilda Rix Nicholas. By 1904, he was a highly successful portrait painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. His ''Mère et Fils'' (of his wife and son), was awarded an honourable mention at the Salon, Paris, in 1912. He was commissioned to paint Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess of York and the Duke of Windsor. He was accredited official war artist for the First AIF during World War I, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Bunny
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (29 September 186425 May 1947) was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in '' fin-de-siècle'' Paris. He gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting '' Tritons'' and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his ''Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria''. The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections. He was a "sumptuous colourist and splendidly erudite painter of ideal themes, and the creator of the most ambitious Salon paintings produced by an Australian." Early life and education Bunny was the third son of Brice Frederick Bunny, a British Victorian county court judge, and his German mother, Marie Hedwig Dorothea Wulsten. He was born in St Kilda, Melbourne. He had an affluent and privileged upbringing. During his childhood, Bunny had an extended trip in Europe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Lilla Holmes
Edith Lilla Holmes (9 March 189326 August 1973) was an Australian artist active in Tasmania. Early life Holmes was born on 9 March 1893 in Hamilton, Tasmania, Hamilton, Tasmania, Australia, the third of five children. Her father, William Nassau Holmes, was an Irish schoolmaster and her mother, Lilla Edith (''née''Thorne), was a Tasmanian-born teacher. Holmes spent her childhood in Hamilton, Devonport and Scottsdale, until her family settled down in Moonah. Her mother recognised Holmes' "good sense of colour" from a young age and encouraged her to pursue art. Holmes attended the Hobart Technical College from 1918 to 1935, where she studied art under the tutelage of Lucien Dechaineux and Mildred Lovett. From 1930 to 1931, she also took classes at the Sydney Art School under Julian Ashton and Henry Gibbons. It was there that she became acquainted with Thea Proctor and George Washington Lambert, George Lambert. Career In the 1930s, Holmes operated a studio in Hobart together with L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Unaipon
David Ngunaitponi (28 September 1872 – 7 February 1967), known as David Unaipon, was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Ngarrindjeri people. He was a preacher, inventor and author. Unaipon's contribution to Australian society helped to break many Aboriginal Australian stereotypes, and he is featured on the Australian $50 note in commemoration of his work. He was the son of preacher and writer James Unaipon. Biography Born at the Point McLeay Mission on the banks of Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of South Australia, Unaipon was the fourth of nine children of James and Nymbulda Ngunaitponi, of the Portaulun branch of the Ngarrindjeri people. Unaipon began his education at the age of seven at the Point McLeay Mission School and soon became known for his intelligence, with the former secretary of the Aborigines' Friends' Association stating in 1887: "I only wish the majority of white boys were as bright, intelligent, well-instructed and well-mannered, as the little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ricketts
William Ricketts (1898–1993) was an Australian potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement. Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1898, William settled permanently in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, in 1934. Although not trained as a potter and never technically superior (his works, large and small, frequently exhibit cracking), the power of his vision of a modern Australia that embraces Aboriginal spirituality and respect for the natural world was his general message throughout his artworks. His major works include the "Dromana" in the Seawinds Garden, Arthurs Seat, Victoria, and "Gun Brute" at the William Ricketts Sanctuary, Mount Dandenong, Victoria. Many smaller works are in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Photographic records of his sculptures, particularly those from the sanctuaries of Pitchi Richi and Mount Dandenong, which have been vandalised, are held in the archives of Australia's libraries. Ricketts, never rich, supported himself through commissi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
