Acquisitions

Acquisitions Barry Tuckwell Collection conductor, Tuckwell was chief for Tuckwell by Gunther Schuller, Evelyn Portek conductor of the Tasmanian Alun Hoddinott, Don Banks, Thea The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Symphony Orchestra for four years, Musgrave, Oliver Knussen and Library has recently acquired a and founding conductor and music Richard Rodney Bennett. Unique substantial collection from the director of the Maryland Symphony items include scores and parts in eminent French horn player and Orchestra for 16. He has made more manuscript, often heavily annotated conductor Barry Tuckwell AC OBE. than 50 commercial recordings as a by Tuckwell, and accompanied by Tuckwell is widely recognised both as soloist and conductor and has correspondence with the composer the foremost horn player of his received three Grammy nominations. which serves to illuminate the process generation and for extending the He continues to have an active of composition. Other documents instrument’s technical possibilities. international career. chart Tuckwell’s study of horn The collection was acquired with the Tuckwell is a Professorial Fellow repertoire by Mozart and Richard generous assistance of a grant from at the University of Melbourne and Strauss in particular. the Ian Potter Foundation, one of Honorary Patron of the Melbourne The concert programs span Australia’s leading private philanthropic International Festival of Brass. His Tuckwell’s career from the mid-1940s organisations, to support the linking many awards include Honorary until his retirement as a performer. of education and the arts. Doctor of Music from the University Many feature performing groups with Barry Tuckwell’s career spans of Sydney, Fellow of the Royal which he was associated, such as the more than 60 years. During this time College of Music, Fellow of the Royal LSO, the Tuckwell Wind Quintet he has performed throughout the Society of Arts, the George Peabody and the Jones, Tuckwell and Langbein world as soloist, chamber musician Medal for outstanding contributions Trio. Tuckwell’s solo career is also and conductor; he is also a highly to music in America and the Andrew fully documented. regarded teacher. Born in Melbourne White Medal from Loyola College. As the collection is being in 1931, he joined the Melbourne He is also an honorary member of the catalogued and listed, conservation Symphony Orchestra at 15 and the Royal Academy of Music and the measures are being taken to improve Sydney Symphony Orchestra a year Guildhall School of Music in its physical condition and ensure its later before leaving for England at 19. London. longevity. The Barry Tuckwell After playing with the Hallé, Scottish The Barry Tuckwell Collection Collection is a significant and National and Bournemouth includes his own library of music comprehensive resource for research Symphony orchestras, Tuckwell was scores, concert programs, press into any aspect of Tuckwell’s principal horn with the London reviews, sound recordings, professional career and 20th-century Symphony Orchestra for 13 years. He promotional posters and photographs, horn repertoire or performance was elected to the board of directors engagement diaries and some practice. and was chairman for six years. business papers and personal Resigning from the LSO in 1968 correspondence. Notable amongst the Evelyn Portek is Music Librarian, Louise Hanson- to pursue a career as soloist and scores are works composed especially Dyer Music Library, University of Melbourne. University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 5, November 2009 47 Previous page: Advertising poster, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 1974. Barry Tuckwell Collection, Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library Rare Collections, University of Melbourne. Left: Jon Cattapan, Sister, 1984, oil on canvas, 155.0 x 217.0 cm. Reg. no. 2008.0084, gift of Jon Cattapan, 2008, University of Melbourne Art Collection. © Copyright the artist. Jon Cattapan’s Sister and months after my sister’s death Seeing the ‘topsy-turvy space’ of The sister drawings over a period of three weeks … these works, Cattapan later noted, Chris McAuliffe I began to realise I was ‘I’ve come to understand this as a In 2008, Associate Professor Jon inventing a cast of characters representation of my sister’s Cattapan (Faculty of VCA and that would stand for my schizophrenia.’2 Music) donated 19 important works family. My interest in Dr Chris McAuliffe is Director, Ian Potter to the University under the Cultural primitivism and animism Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. Gifts Program. The works are of comes through fairly strongly. immense personal significance to the Although they are expressive Baillieu Library Print artist and have been kept in his there is a level of control. … Collection possession since they were made. And of course there’s the issue Kerrianne Stone They represent a pivotal moment in of the invention of the It is with great excitement that the his development, establishing imagery—that automatic Print Collection at the Baillieu interests that continue to shape his doodling that goes back to Library announces its first purchase art: the exploration of personal and surrealism.1 of prints in a decade. The first of emotional responses to trauma, Averaging a drawing a day for three these acquisitions was 16 engravings improvisation and the daily practice weeks, Cattapan couldn’t help but see by William Hogarth (1697–1764) of drawing, and responses to key that improvisation generated its own which were printed after the artist’s moments in modern art (such as kinds of regularity. Repeated motifs death, by James Heath in 1820. This surrealism and cubism). like the cross, the radiant head and group includes the series of 12 prints, In 1984, Cattapan’s sister, the mourning figure might emerge Industry and idleness, depicting the Adriana, was suddenly killed when a from the unconscious but they are fortunes of two apprentices. Also fire engine collided with her car. The shaped by an acquired knowledge of purchased was Hogarth’s last print, artist’s response was both immediate Christian iconography. The bathos. and reflective. Sister is a rawly painted In deferring his address to his The purchase of the Hogarth cry of anguish. The sister drawings are sister’s death, then attacking it as a prints was generously supported by more controlled, revealing Cattapan’s daily exercise, Cattapan discovered the Friends of the Baillieu Library, as tendency to use a daily process of something fundamental to his was the purchase of a contemporary drawings as a contemplative exercise. practice; time gave him the etching by Erik Desmazières Sketched in red pencil (for pain) opportunity to digest emotion and (b.1948), La Librairie Paul Jammes. and black (for sorrow), the drawings distil it into a sustained program of The acquisition of contemporary were the most thoughtful and imagery that was both cathartic and prints by artists like Desmazières, reflective works he had yet made. reflective. The drawings could achieve who are directly influenced by the I think there is a desire to set their premeditated role of mourning work of the Old Masters, is a means up a harmony in these works. and, after the fact, could surprise the of collecting with more vision and I made them about three artist with unintended resonances. reinvigorating the Baillieu Library 48 University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 5, November 2009 Right: Fred Miller after Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix, published by Robert Dunthorne at The Rembrandt Head, 1892, photogravure, plate: 57.6 x 44.7 cm. Reg. no. 2009.0107, purchased 2009, Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne. Print Collection’s core collecting Books from the family have graduated with Bachelor area—Old Master prints from 1430 Thorn family library of Arts degrees from the University of to 1850. The gift of more than 200 Belinda Nemec Melbourne, starting with Frances Lionel Lindsay prints in 1964 by Dr Peter Sutherland (MD, Melbourne, Remington in 1898, who became very Mrs L.I. Wright demonstrated at 1964) and his family recently donated active in the Australian Federation of that time how well suited to the 90 books from the library of his University Women and other collection was the work of a forebears, the Thorn family. educational and civic organisations, contemporary Australian printmaker. Dr Sutherland’s grandparents, and also Catherine Remington in We are pleased to add another of William Thorn (1860–1933) and 1904, founder of the Associated Lindsay’s international prints, a Frances Elizabeth Mary Thorn (née Teacher Training Institute, later drypoint etching The Bassra Guard Remington, 1869–1954), purchased a known as Mercer House. Many of the (1929). house in Hawthorn in 1911. The men are also alumni, so the family felt The acquisition of Beata Beatrix house has remained in the family and that this was a fitting home for some (1892), a photogravure after Dante contains the extensive library of the of the books. The University Library Gabriel Rossetti’s 1863 painting Thorns and of Frances’ sister, is grateful to the Thorn and representing the figure of Beatrice Catherine Remington (1872–1944, a Sutherland families for their Portinari, relates to other collections schoolteacher), who lived with them generosity. in the Baillieu Library such as in the latter part of her life. The Some of the books donated are William Morris and his Kelmscott collection as a whole covered a wide pictured on the front cover of this Press books, while the recent range of subject matter, reflecting the magazine. acquisition of Lucian Pissarro’s extensive interests of the three. (1863–1944) drawing, Willows at Included were collections of essays Dr Belinda Nemec is editor of University of Melbourne Collections. This article draws on Eragny (c.1885) complements the and poetry, classics, novels, writings information kindly provided by Dr Peter Library’s holdings of the complete on philosophy, psychology, religion, Sutherland. titles from the Eragny Press. Another travel, biography, nature, geology, purchase resulted from this year’s architecture and school books.

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