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AGS Lecture Series 2011 Slide Test Revision List [REVISED 1 NOV 2011] Numbers Preceding Slides Refer to Their Listing in Lecture Handouts AGS lecture series 2011 slide test revision list [REVISED 1 NOV 2011] Numbers preceding slides refer to their listing in lecture handouts. Modernism, liberation and a new way of seeing Barry Pearce 2/3 February 2011 44. Robert Delauney, The red tower, 1911-12, oil on canvas. Guggenheim Museum, New York 53. Grace Cossington Smith, 1892-1984, The curve of the bridge, 1928-29, oil on cardboard. AGNSW Colour in art: revisiting 1919 Deborah Edwards 9/10 February 2011 1. Roy de Maistre, Rhythmic composition in yellow green minor 1919, oil, AGNSW 7. [x 2] Roland Wakelin, Synchromy in orange major 1919, oil, AGNSW ; Roy de Maistre Syncromy Berry’s Bay 1919, oil, NGV Love and Friendship: George Lambert and Thea Proctor Christopher Allen 16/17 February 2011 10. George Lambert. Miss Thea Proctor, 1903. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 71 cm. Sydney, AGNSW. 42. Thea Proctor, Siesta, 1913. Watercolour, 31 x 51.4 cm. Canberra, NGA. Sydney Style Craig Judd 23 / 24 February 2011 1. D.H. Souter (1862–1935). Untitled (Butterflies or Moths) c.1928. Pen and ink. National Gallery of Australia 6. Margaret Preston (1875–1963). Flapper 1925. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Australia Misty moderns: Max Meldrum and the Australian Tonalists Tracey Lock-Weir 2 / 3 March 2011 10. Max Meldrum, Picherit’s Farm, c.1910, oil on canvas, NGV 17. Clarice Beckett, Summer fields, 1926, oil on board, PC The French Connection: Cubism & Australian Art in the 1920 & 1930s Ann Stephen 9 / 10 March 2011 13. Roy de Maistre, Seated Figure, 1933, AGNSW 21. JW Power, Danseurs l’accordien, 1929 The body as nation: Australian sculpture of the 1920s and ’30s Denise Mimmocchi 16 / 17 March 2011 1 2. Margel Hinder, Mother and child, 1939, wood (ironbark), Art Gallery of New South Wales 10. Rayner Hoff, The kiss, 1923, bronze, Art Gallery of South Australia Degenerates and perverts: the legendary 1939 Herald exhibition of modern masters Steven Miller 23 / 24 March 2011 27. Salvador Dalí The memory of the child-woman 1932, oil on canvas, collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Florida. This was the most ‘controversial’ painting in the Herald exhibition 54. Vincent van Gogh Portrait of a man 1886/7, oil on canvas on panel, NGV, purchased from the Herald exhibition for £2,196 A parallel universe: Aboriginal art in the 20th century Hetti Perkins 30 / 31 March 2011 7. Timmy Timms, Mistake Creek Massacre, 2000, natural pigments on linen canvas. Purchased 2003 12. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri & Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Warlugulong, 1976, synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Purchased 1981 Modern Australian women Catriona Moore 6 / 7 April 2011 13. Grace Cossington Smith, The Lacquer Room, 1935-36 18. [x 2] Margaret Preston, Implement Blue, 1927; Olive Cotton, Teacup Ballet, 1935 Landscape after Heidelberg Christopher Allen 4 / 5 May 2011 27. Hans Heysen, Droving into the light, 1914-21, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 152.4 cm, Adelaide, AGSA 32. Clarice Beckett, Beaumaris seascape, c. 1925, oil on cardboard, 50 x 49 cm; Canberra, NGA Dark nights of the soul Jacqueline Strecker 11 / 12 May 2011 16. John Perceval, Boy with cat 2, 1943, oil on composition board, National Gallery of Australia 26. Arthur Boyd, The mockers, 1945, oil on canvas on hardboard, Art Gallery of New South Wales The narrative impulse: Boyd and Nolan Barry Pearce 18 / 19 May 2011 3. Nolan Self portrait 1943 AGNSW 30. Boyd The expulsion 1947-48 AGNSW 2 Alison French 25 / 26 May 2011 ALBERT NAMATJIRA 1902 -1959 9 [x 2] *(LEFT) William Dargie (1912 -2007), Portrait of Albert Namatjira, 1956, oil on canvas, Queensland Art Gallery; *(RIGHT) Noel Counihan (1913-1986), Albert Namatjira, 1959, after, stencil screen print from one screen taken from original linocut 2nd state. National Gallery of Australia 15 *(LOWER LEFT) Rex Battarbee (1893 -1973) Not titled landscape, 1936, watercolour over pencil on paper. National Gallery of Australia Mind-forg’d manacles: Blake’s attempt to free Australian art from the landscape and the portrait Steven Miller 1 / 2 June 2011 28. Robert Dickerson The Resurrection 1959 Enamel on board, 120 x 180 cm Private collection, Qld 34. Justin O’Brien The Virgin Enthroned 1951 Oil on canvas, Tryptych 126 x 195.8 cm Collection of theNational Gallery of Victoria Cubism and Australian art from 1940 Lesley Harding 8 / 9 June 2011 23. Grace Crowley, Abstract Painting, 1947, oil on cardboard, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 46. John Passmore, Orange Dot, 1953, oil on hardboard, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney The not charming Charm School Craig Judd 15/16 June 2011 2. Donald Friend (1915–1989) The Secret Weapon (1942) pen and ink National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 3.Sali Herman (1898–1993) McElhone stairs National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Printmaking in Melbourne and Sydney: a 1960s and ‘70s Renaissance Elizabeth Cross 22 / 23 June 2011 7. Earle Backen, Black Structure, 1963 (etching, engraving, acquatint ) 44. Fred Williams, Forest of gum trees, 1965-66 (etching) Australians in London 1950-60 Barry Pearce 29 / 30 June 2011 Brett Whiteley 1939-92 40. Untitled red painting 1960, Tate, London Colin Lanceley b1938 44. Glad family picnic 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales 3 City and country: postwar Australian art Christopher Allen 20 / 21 July 2011 30. John Brack, The Bar, 1954; oil on canvas, 96.4 x 140 cm; Melbourne, NGV 35. Jeffrey Smart, Bus Terminus, 1973, acrylic and oil on canvas, 92 x 81 cm; Sydney, AGNSW Suburbia Michael Hill 27 / 28 July 2011 1. Herbert Badham, Bar Scene, 1940 3. John Brack, Collins St 5pm, 1955 Tuckson and Abstract Expressionism Terence Maloon 3 / 4 August 2011 [no designated slides] Exotics: the other side. Fairweather, Friend and Whiteley Barry Pearce 10 / 11 August 2011 Ian Fairweather 16. Anak Bayan 1957, AGNSW Donald Friend 36. Self portrait in a carved mirror c1972, private collection 20th century Australian portraiture Sarah Engledow 17 / 18 August 42. Sir Hudson Fysh KBE DFC 1950, William Dobell (1899-1970), oil on hardboard, 133.5 x 113 cm (frame). National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Gift of the Australian War Memorial, in association with the Fysh family 2008 60. Kate Hattam 1956, Clifton Pugh (1924-1990), oil on board, 135.5 x 107 cm. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Purchased 2006 Issues of place and ornament: post–WWII architecture in Sydney and Melbourne Peter Kohane 24 / 25 August 2011 14. Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House, 1957-73 18. Richard Leplastrier, Tom Uren House, Balmain, Sydney 1988-92 The dilemmas of post-war Australian photography 1945-75 Judy Annear 31 August / 1 September 2011 8. Max Dupain Meat queue 1946 gelatin silver photograph AGNSW119.1976 42. Fiona Hall Australia 1974 gelatin silver photograph AGNSW227.1981 Art and politics in the 1970s Ann Stephen 7 / 8 September 2011 4 1. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, from the project ‘Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet, Sydney, 1968-69, photograph, AGNSW 11. Aleks Danko, Art Stuffing 1970, paint on paper stuffed hessian bag, 75.0 x 58.0 x 30.0cm, AGNSW Come and see the real thing: transitions in three dimensional art 1970-90 Deborah Edwards 14 / 15 September 2011 23. Ken Unsworth, Suspended stone circle II 1974-77, 1988 river stones, wire, AGNSW 30 Robert Macpherson 20 Frog poems: distant thunder (a memorial) for DM 1987-89 metl-stik on wood, beehives, AGNSW Papunya Tula: icons of the desert Roger Benjamin 21 / 22 September 2011 9. [x2] Honey Ant Dreaming, mural at Papunya Special School, Jly-Aug 1971 + Mural in Jly 1972, before effacement by govt authorities 13. [x 2] Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Men’s Ceremony for Gulgardi, July 1971 + Namatjira, Mount Sonder, c. 1950 Pop art and The Yellow House Craig Judd 12 / 13 October 2011 4. Martin Sharp, “Still life: (Marilyn), 1973, painting, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, National Gallery of Australia 7. Alan Oldfield (1943-2004), “Interior with banana chair”, 1973, synthetic polymer on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Colour field to Conceptualism Terence Maloon 19 / 20 October 2011 1. David Aspden: Outer Spice, 1969, synthetic polymer on canvas, 152.4 x 244 x 2.8 cm 2. Dick Watkins: October, 1967, synthetic polymer on canvas, 244 x 305 x 4 cm 5.
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