Toorak Art Gallery was an art gallery 277 Toorak Road,
South Yarra
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, Melbourne, Victoria, which specialised in contemporary
figurative and
abstract Australian art. It was in operation from 1964 to 1975.
Exhibitions
* 1964, from August 9:
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
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exhibition of painting and sculpture
* 1964, 7–20 September: ''Young Australian contemporaries'' - painting, drawing and graphic art. Artists: Peter Wallace, Tony Cook, Sally Downley, Ken Leveson, John Fischer, Les Kossatz, John Brock, Tor Howlett, Connie Russo, John R. Wratten, John Stokes, Malcolm Ratten.
* 1964: Third exhibition of Lithuanian artists in Australia, Melbourne. Artists: Vida Kabaila, Eva Kubbos, Vladas Meskenas, Nina Meskenas, Irena Pauliukonis, Eva Pocius, Vaclovas Ratas,
Henry Salkauskas
Henry Salkauskas (6 May 1925 – 31 August 1979) was an Australian printmaker and abstract artist in watercolors, a refugee from Lithuania.
History
Henrikas Salkauskas was born in Kaunas (aka Kovno), Lithuania, the only child of Henrikas Sal ...
, Victoras Simankevicius, Algirdas Simkunas, Leonas Urbonas, Adolfas Vaicaitis, Adomis Vingis, Teisutis Zikaras, Leonas Zygas.
* 1965, February: Alex Kosma
* 196? Gerald Bland, John Bursill, Douglas Wright, Janet Body
* 1967, June 28-July 22: Paintings and sculpture: John Adam, George Allen, Norm Affleck, William Aylward, Haslewood Ball,. Graham Chambers, Fred Coventry, Neil Douglas,
Karl Duldig
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Ludwik Dutkiewicz, Stella Dilger, Kevin English, Gerard Ebeli,
William Frater
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Early life and education
Scotland
William Frater was born on 31 January 1890 a ...
, Patsy Foard, Jemima Fry, Peter Glass, Abigail Heathcote, Esther Harris, Louis James, David Keys,
Norman Lindsay
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, Antoinette Mathieson, Karlis Mednis, Margaret Mezaks, Patrick O'Carrigan, Welsey Penberthy, Bernard Rust, Stephen Spurrier, Douglas Stubbs, Theo Shossau,
Alan Sumner
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Education
Alan Sumner studied at Melbourne's National Gallery Art School ...
, Mario Telese, Wendy Thomas, Lorraine White, Mark Ward, Barbara Wales, Charles Wheeler, Ian Bow, Hermann Hohaus, Robert Langley, Lois Kuppers,
Andor Mészáros.
* 1968, March 5–25: Mixed exhibition:
Arthur Boyd
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,
Judy Cassab
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Early years
Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents. She began painting at twelve years old and began studying at ...
, Neil Douglas, Ludwik Dutkiewicz,
Salvador Dali,
Donald Friend
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, Leonard Hessing, Michael Kmit, Rodney Milgate, Keith Nichol,
John Olsen
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, Krishna Reddy, Douglas Stubbs,
Roland Wakelin
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Early life
Roland Shakespeare Wakelin was born on 17 April 1887 in Greytown, New Zealand. He studied at Wellington Technical School from 190 ...
.
* 1968, October: Keith Nichols
* 1969: 28 February-10 March:
Moomba Festival
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exhibition
* 1969, June 10–20: Mixed exhibition
* ''4 painters'' - Antoinette Mathieson, Elizabeth Prior, Joyce Thompson, Barbara Wales
* 1970, 27 February-7 March: Moomba Festival exhibition
* 1970:
Frank Hinder
* 1970, April 1–14: Francis Lymburner
* 1970, June 21-July 4: Mid-year exhibition
* 1970, February: Abigail, paintings
* 1970, from 26 November: Exhibition of paintings. Artists: Christine Berkman, Ken Buckland, William Degan,
Basil Hadley
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, Lesley Pockley,
David Voigt.
* 1970: Group show incl. Adolfas Jankus
* 1971, from July 27: Paintings & seriographs: Abigail, Henry Bell, Dora Cant,
David Voigt,
Salvatore Zofrea
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Life and work
Zofrea was born in Borgia Italy, on the 1st January 1946, and emigrated to Australia in 19 ...
.* 1972, from April 28:
Frank Auerbach
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* 1972, May 21-June 3: Exhibition of paintings by
William Aylward,
Kevin Lincoln
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Life and work
Kevin Lincoln was born in Battery Point, Hobart in 1941 and moved to Melbourne in the 1960s, where he has lived and worked ever since. Receiving little to no formal art training, ...
, June Stephenson, Lilian Sutherland, John Winch
* 1972, 11–24 June: Kit Barker, William Broker
* 1972, from September 14: ''French painters of poetic realism''. Artists:
Yves Brayer
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He was born in Versailles. He studied in Paris at the academies in Montparnasse starting in 1924, and then at the École des Beaux-Art ...
, Christian Caillard, Joseph A. Muslin,
Andre Planson, Maurice-Georges Poncelet, Roland Oudot, George Rohner.
* 1972, July 2–15: ''July mixed exhibition'': John Aland, David Armfield, Jamie Barker, Ken Buckland, Elizabeth Cummings, Lyndon Dadswell, Phillip Davis, Ross Davis,
Shay Docking
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Early life
Docking was born in Warrnambool Victoria in 1928, and was the youngest of seven children. Her father was a clergyman and her mother a musicia ...
, Neil Douglas, William Frater, Robert Grieve, George Hodgkins, Julie Ingleby, Louis James, Michael Kmit, Eva Kubbos, Keith Nichol, Geoff O'Loughlin, Aina Nicmanis,
Desiderius Orban
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One of The Eight i ...
, William Peascod, L. Pendlebury,
Clifton Pugh
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,
Henry Salkauskas
Henry Salkauskas (6 May 1925 – 31 August 1979) was an Australian printmaker and abstract artist in watercolors, a refugee from Lithuania.
History
Henrikas Salkauskas was born in Kaunas (aka Kovno), Lithuania, the only child of Henrikas Sal ...
,
David Voigt, John Winch, Salvatore Zofrea,
Reinis Zusters.
* 1972, 15–28 October: Salvatore Zofrea solo show
* 1973, September 3–18: ''Liverpool +1'' Jan Windus, Tony Kirkman,
Noel Sheridan
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, John Fisher, Tim Burns, Mitch Johnson
* 1973, October: Lynch Prize for Painting
* 1974, April: Barrie Goddard
* 1974:
Kevin Connor, solo
* 1975, November 26–28: ''Artists for Labor and democracy - an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints''
* 1975:
Barry Cleavin and Geofrey Brown, prints
* 1975: Paul Greenaway
* 1975: Stephen May
References
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Modern art museums
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1974 disestablishments in Australia
Art museums and galleries established in 1964
Art museums and galleries disestablished in 1974
History of Melbourne
Australian art