HIDDEN TREASURES the Maitland Collection HIDDEN TREASURES the Maitland Collection HIDDEN TREASURES the Maitland Collection

Maitland Regional Gallery 2003

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cover image: Dale FRANK, Back from the City 1976, P76-05, courtesy Dale Frank and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Foreword 4 Peter Blackmore

Maitland Regional Gallery 5 Jill Stowell & the Maitland Collection

Selected works 8

Maitland Prize lists 42

Biographies 44

Acknowledgements 47

3 Foreword

Hidden Treasures: The Maitland Collection showcases the permanent collection of the Maitland Regional Gallery. The works in this exhibition have been selected from over 600 paintings, prints and drawings. They reflect the various histories of art in Australia over the last 50 years and highlight the contribution that locally based artists have made to these histories. The Maitland Collection holds representative works of Australia’s most important artists from the twentieth century. These include Lloyd Rees, Sir , , Sir Hans Heysen, , Charles Blackman, John Coburn and Donald Friend. The early central desert dot painting by Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri is particularly unique. It is, quite simply, the most important Aboriginal artwork held in any regional gallery in Australia and it represents the only internationally significant art movement ever to emerge from this country. Another unique feature of the Maitland Collection is the suite of African bronzes and carvings kindly donated by William Bowmore. Bowmore became the first Freeman of the City of Maitland in 1986. Also represented are artworks by influential writers and administrators such as and James Gleeson. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the Maitland Collection is the number of early works acquired from artists who later went on to substantial careers. Important early works by Brian Dunlop, Neil Emmerson, Dale Frank and Tim Johnson can be found at Maitland. The Maitland Collection also showcases the work of artists from the broader . While works by John Olsen, and Sir are familiar to us all and are included in the collection, the Gallery has also supported a very broad range of locally based practice. John Martin, the former Mayor of Maitland, is well represented, as is senior Hunter Valley identity Max Watters. Of particular interest are figurative landscapes by locally based and internationally renowned crime-writer, Barry Maitland. Hidden Treasures: The Maitland Collection marks Maitland City Council’s commitment to the visual arts in the Hunter Region. It showcases the best artists from Australia including many with strong local connections. On behalf of Maitland City Council and the people of Maitland, I hope that you enjoy this exhibition.

Cr Peter Blackmore Mayor of Maitland

4 Maitland Regional Gallery & the Maitland Collection

The works of art in the permanent The judges chosen each year constitute collection of the Maitland Gallery have a roll-call of leading gallery directors, been amassed in various ways. Like other curators, teachers and artists; evidence regional galleries, Maitland has been the of the long-standing prestige of the prize. recipient of many gifts from generous In recent times the escalating price of individuals. Further works have been paintings has usurped the value of the purchased with funds raised by an active prize and thus its attraction to nationally Gallery Society. But the history of the prominent artists. This and the growing collection is closely linked to the Maitland maturity of the art scene in the Hunter Art Prize, at the time of its inception in has led to many more local artists winning 1957 one of the first valuable art prizes in the major award. Since the prize-winning NSW outside . works in the collection cover almost fifty years of history, they reveal Established through cooperation significant changes in style and ethos, between the Hunter River Agricultural from the bold hard-edge abstraction of and Horticultural Association, Maitland the 1960s to the post-modern ironies of City Council and the Maitland Branch today. of the Arts Council of NSW, the Prize achieved a national profile through the As the gallery acquired prize-winning many contacts in the wider art world works by prominent artists, both national of Jean Oberhansli, wife of the then and local, it also attracted donations manager of the Bradmill textile works. from generous individuals. William The Prize only became acquisitive in Bowmore, who has enriched many 1965. Since that date the winning works public collections in Australia, has been have been presented to the Maitland particularly generous to Maitland. He was City Art Gallery by the Maitland Show made a Freeman of the City of Maitland Association. in recognition of his gifts which include paintings by Ray Crooke, Shay Docking Many notable artists were attracted to and Margaret Olley as well as drawings the prize and later to minor awards for by Sir William Dobell and Brett Whiteley. works on paper and a prize specifically for local artists. Over the years Hunter A particularly significant gift made business firms have contributed generous in 1979 consisted of a group of tribal sponsorship. West African sculpture, which includes

5 some historically important bronzes. the gallery in 1973 as Secretary of the Few galleries in Australia have anything Maitland City Art Gallery Society and in equivalent, though Mr Bowmore divided 1984 was appointed part-time Director his African collection between Maitland with financial assistance from the NSW and Museum in Sydney. Ministry for the Arts.

The importance of another Bowmore gift It was always Margaret Sivyer’s vision was only recently recognised. A small to instigate a rich and varied annual Aboriginal painting presented in 1979 program of exhibitions. In the nineteenth- was discovered to be the work of Tim century heritage mansion, Brough Leura Tjapaltjarri, one of the founding House, leased since 1975 by the Council fathers of the Papunya art community in from the Reserve Trustee, the National the Western desert north of Alice Springs. Trust, the calendar contained regular Mrs I.F. Cantwell is another notable events with a particular focus on art in benefactor, having donated works education. The Tertiary Student Award by Lloyd Rees, Donald Friend, James was established in 1976 for students of Gleeson and Sir Sidney Nolan. the area’s art schools. The Secondary Student Prize (1978) has catered for a Important gifts from the Gallery Society growing number of schools in the Lower include prints and drawings by Lloyd Hunter. Rees, John Olsen and Louis Kahan. However, the history of the Maitland Several winners of the Tertiary Student City Art Gallery, now the Maitland Award have established notable careers Regional Gallery, extends far beyond its and many of their winning works were collection. acquired for the collection. Important early pieces from 1978 and 1980 by It was not until 1975 that the expanding Michael Bell arrived in this way, as well collection found a permanent home in as an early gestural abstract by Chris Brough House, though Margaret Sivyer Langlois. Other significant winners have was only made full-time Director in 1993, been Jane Lander (1981), Neil Emmerson three years after the administration of (1982) and Peter Atkins (1984). A prize the gallery passed from the control of for plant and wildlife illustration was the Gallery Society to the Maitland City established in 1992 and in 2003 the Council. She began her involvement with Pambulong Award for Aboriginal Students

6 was inaugurated. Survey exhibitions in Trevor Weekes and Joy Longworth. A 1994 and 1996 brought together works by survey of the painting and sculpture of many previous winners. Lezlie and Peter Tilley toured to other regional galleries in 2000. Painter and Margaret Sivyer, who was awarded former Mayor of Maitland, John Martin, an OAM in 1990, pioneered two other multiple winner of the Maitland Prize, was major initiatives. She felt strongly that the invited several times to exhibit. history of artmaking in the area should be preserved. The gallery curated several Other important projects included exhibitions by the group of women artists, exhibitions which pioneered installations many of them students of John Passmore and fibre-based artmaking. The Fibre and Brian Cowley, who came together Artists of the Hunter brought together in the late 1950s. Norma Allen, Mary some remarkable artists. Large Beeston and Rae Richards were also sculptural works were frequently shown featured in well-researched individual to advantage in the formal domestic surveys. No other gallery in the region has ambience of the old house. In 1984 a documented its exhibitions so assiduously, notable exhibition was drawn from the nor has compiled such comprehensive Rodin bronzes in the Bowmore collection. files on the area’s artists. Ceramics with glass by Julio Santos and Setsuko Ogishi were a regular focus. Margaret Sivyer has also been keen to support a more recent generation of As the gallery moves into a new phase artists. Every year saw at least one large of its development in its splendid new group exhibition based on environmental home, it is important that we honour a or commemorative themes. A wide and proud past. The Maitland City Art Gallery catholic group of artists was regularly has had many significant achievements invited to participate. in an almost thirty year history.

She also mounted survey exhibitions of the work of such prominent regional Jill Stowell artists as painters John Montefiore, David Middlebrook, Francis Celtlan and Max Watters, printmaker Patricia Wilson- Adams, potter Sue Jones and polymaths

7 Selected works

8 Michael BELL, The Dog Beach, Newcastle, 1999 oil on board, 119 x 182 cm, P00-01

9 Charles BLACKMAN, I Love Tom Jones, 1969 lithograph (edition 9/25), 40 x 58 cm, P78-03

10 John COBURN, Legend IV, 1965 oil on canvas, 152 x 169 cm, P66-03

11 Ray CROOKE, Island Villagers, 1969 oil on board, 60 x 90 cm, P85-03

12 Robert DICKERSON, Blue Lovers After Picasso, (no date) oil on canvas board, 60 x 44 cm, P95-01

13 Sir William DOBELL, Kensington Gardens London, 1936 oil on board, 20 x 24 cm, P76-02

14 Shay DOCKING, Woodflower, 1962 oil on masonite, 137 x 92 cm, P95-09

15 Brian DUNLOP, Coal Mining at Burragorang, 1956 oil on canvas, 70 x 120 cm, P57-02

16 Neil EMMERSON, Girl in Water, 1984 screenprint (edition 1/6), 102 x 121 cm, P86-02

17 Dale FRANK, Back from the City, 1975 acrylic on masonite, 82 x 112 cm, P76-05

18 Hector GILLILAND, Untitled, 1964 oil on masonite, 122 x 120 cm, P65-01

19 James GLEESON, Hermes turns Daphne to Stone, (no date) oil on hardboard, 13 x 15 cm, P85-04

20 Newton HEDSTROM, Concrete Mixer, 1948 oil on masonite, 49 x 59 cm, P57-04

21 Sali HERMAN, St Mark’s Church of England, 1956 oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, P58-01

22 Sir Hans HEYSEN, Untitled (Old Mill), (no date) oil on canvas, 30 x 25 cm, P87-03

23 Col JORDAN, Poise, 1968 oil on masonite, 137 x 137 cm, P68-01

24 Louis KAHAN, Allegory, 1985 etching (edition 3/55), 56 x 68 cm, P86-03

25 Michael KMIT, Girl on Blue Background, 1964 mixed media, 23 x 20 cm, P78-11

26 Tim LEURA TJAPALTJARRI, Untitled, c1973 acrylic on masonite, 62 x 42 cm, AB79-01

27 John MARTIN, View from the Bottom Window (Into Z), 1985 mixed media, 158 x 114, P86-01

28 John MORRIS, Unseasonal Landscape, 1992 oil on canvas, 122 x 203 cm, P92-09

29 Sir Sidney NOLAN, Mine Manager, (no date) ink & paint on glass, 26 x 31 cm, P84-07

30 Margaret OLLEY, Banksias, 1970 oil on masonite, 121 x 98 cm, P76-18

31 John OLSEN, Swimming Frog II, 1986 lithograph (edition 25/40), 96 x 63 cm, P86-07

32 , Landscape with White Heron, (no date) oil on board, 26 x 21 cm, P99-09

33 Lloyd REES, Hillside Farm, 1950 oil on canvas board, 30 x 37 cm, P84-10

34 Brian ROBERTS, Language of Navigation, 2001 oil on canvas, 122 x 152 cm, P01-04

35 Bruce ROWLAND, Masque, 1978 oil on hardboard, 92 x 122 cm, P96-07

36 Joshua SMITH, JWA Smith (Self Portrait), 1937 oil on canvas, 122 x 77 cm, P99-16

37 Lezlie TILLEY, 69 Continuity (Quilt for Margaret Alice), 1998 mixed media, 183 x 119 cm, P98-01

38 Peter TILLEY, Shards with Leaves and Flowers, 1992 mixed media, 79 x 68 x 7 cm, P92-11

39 Brett WHITELEY, Nude (no date) lithograph (edition 20/60), 59 x 46 cm, P78-22

40 41 Maitland Art Prize

Year Winner Title Judge 1957 Roy FLUKE The Refinery Sir William Dobell 1958 Roy FLUKE Circular Quay Sir William Dobell 1959 Sali HERMAN Dawn at Port Macquarie Laurie Thomas 1960 Sali HERMAN Miss Margo Clancy George Molnar 1961 Leonard ANNOIS Café de Beaux Arts - Sali Herman 1962 Sali HERMAN Brick Kilns Daniel Thomas 1963 joint Sheila McDONALD On the Sandover Robert Haines William PEASCOD Poem to a Burnt Land 1964 Charles REDDINGTON The Golden Apples of the Hesperides Tony Tuckson 1965 Hector GILLILAND Untitled Wallace Thornton 1966 John COBURN Legend IV Brian Finemore 1967 Graham COHEN Carnival John Stringer 1968 Col JORDAN Poise Gordon Thompson 1969 Hector GILLILAND Grey, White and Red Daniel Thomas 1970 James MELDRUM Green Space Box Eric Westbrook 1971 William PEASCOD Tao James Gleeson 1972 Louis JAMES Spy Hole 10 Guy Warren 1973 Les BURCHER Spreading Town John Santry 1974 Ron LAMBERT Vertical Lateral Lorna M. Nimmo 1975 David RANKIN Skirt Frances McCarthy 1976 John MARTIN Kalik Pink Sydney Ball 1977 Ross JACKSON Untitled Elwynn Lynn 1978 Geoff La GERCHE Kellermans John Coburn 1979 Kate BRISCOE Big Pink Peter Laverty 1980 Michael GOODE Interior with Landscape David P. Miller 1981 joint Ann TAYLOR Going North Ken Reinhard Gregory HARKNESS Tri-Trangi 1982 Jean ISHERWOOD Hillside John Henshaw 1983 joint John EARLE Gumtree Landscape David Rose Ann TAYLOR Mackeral Beach 1984 - 1985 No funding 1986 John MARTIN View From the Bottom Window David Bradshaw 1987 Janet LAWRENCE Between Two Lives Terence Maloon 1988 Tim JOHNSON Tai Situpa Grazia Gunn 1989 Kate BRISCOE Mantle John Coburn 1990 Ruth WALLER Landscape with Quarry Alun Leach-Jones 1991 Lionel SMITH Meeting Place Trevor Weekes 1992 joint John MORRIS Unseasonal Conditions Tony Bond Peter TILLEY Shards with Leaves and Flowers 1993 joint Barry GAZZARD Nothing So Mute as God’s Mouth Hendrik Kolenberg Julie HOSKING Earth Altars 1994 Mary BEESTON Honeysuckle phoenix I William Bowmore 1995 Maitland Show suspended 1996 David MIDDLEBROOK Lake George Nicole Grant 1997 Roy JACKSON Last Light Edmund Capon 1998 Lezlie TILLEY 69 Continuity (Quilt for Margaret Alice) Katrina Rumley 1999 Liz CUMMING Graw in Blue Reg Richardson

42 2000 joint Michael BELL The Dog Beach, Newcastle Sue Mitchell Jill ORR A Preference for the Buena Vista Social Club 2001 Brian ROBERTS Language of Navigation Sioux Garside 2002 Lezlie TILLEY Midnight at Bur Dubai Annette Larkin 2003 joint David MIDDLEBROOK Red Gold Norman Glen Brian ROBERTS Navigator’s Journal

Maitland Print Prize

Year Winner Title Judge 1966 Earle BACKEN Foreboding Brian Finemore 1967 George BALDESSIN World of Tinsel John Stringer 1968 Stephen SPURRIER Man’s Cloud Gordon Thompson 1969 Sue BUCKLEY Time Daniel Thomas 1970 George BALDESSIN Personages and Gothic Eric Westbrook 1971 Robert GRIEVE Nara Memory James Gleeson 1972 David ROSE Figure 1 Guy Warren 1973 Vi COLLINGS Listening Along a Beam John Santry 1974 Mary MACQUEEN The Banteng Lorna M. Nimmo 1975 Anthony KELLY Crossing the Prairie Frances McCarthy 1976 A.A. MORGAN Violet Sydney Ball 1977 Ian PEARSON Mandarin Tree Elwynn Lynn 1978 Patricia WILSON Wet Day System John Coburn 1979 Basil HADLEY Wall Theme VIII Peter Laverty 1980 Ursula LAVERTY View Over the Valley David P. Miller 1981 Rick BADGER Temple Place Ken Reinhard 1982 P. KING Cronulla 27 John Henshaw 1983 Raymond ARNOLD Red Condition David Rose 1984 Fred CRESS Kalianne 1985 Grahame FRANSELLA Man with a Suitcase 1986 Neil EMMERSON Girl in Water David Bradshaw 1987 Bruno TUCCI Restful Night Terence Maloon 1988 Award withheld Grazia Gunn 1989 Colleen NEAL Foam Fascination John Coburn 1990 Award withheld Alun Leach-Jones 1991 joint Joy LONGWORTH Untitled Trevor Weekes Noel THURGATE Portrait of Royston Harper 1992 Lee ZAUNDERS Visage Tony Bond 1993 Lorraine ROBERTSON Sunbaker Hendrik Kolenberg 1994 Shirley CAMERON-ROBERTS Studies in Form and Movement William Bowmore 1995 Maitland Show suspended 1996 Joy LONGWORTH Untitled Nicole Grant 1997 Shirley CAMERON-ROBERTS The Embrace Edmund Capon 1998 Garry FOYE Capertee Reflection 3 Katrina Rumley 1999 Anne CAPE Nude Image Reg Richardson 2000 Anne CAPE Female Presence Sue Mitchell 2001 Jill ORR Chum Sioux Garside 2002 Michael BELL Hell’s Kitchen Annette Larkin 2003 Bob BIRCH Into the Mangroves Norman Glen

43 Biographies

Michael BELL APPOINTMENTS: Official war artist, WW2; teacher, East Sydney Maitland 1959 Tech c.1940. AWARDS: Society of Artists Travelling Scholarship 1929; State Theatre Art Quest 1929; Archibald Prizes 1943, STUDIES: NCAE 1978-81. APPOINTMENTS: Teaching Hunter 1948 & 1959; 1948; Australian Women’s Weekly Institute of Tech 1984-94 & 1999-2003, Goulburn TAFE 1996- portrait prize 1957; Britannica Australia award 1964; knighted 98. AWARDS: Maitland 1980, 1981, 2000 & 2002; Newcastle 1966. Uni 1993 Shay DOCKING Charles BLACKMAN OBE Warrnambool 1928 – 1998 Sydney Sydney 1928 STUDIES: Swinburne Tech, 1947-50; NGV School 1954-55. STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1943-46. APPOINTMENTS: Press AWARDS Maitland 1959; Gold Coast 1979; Newcastle 1986. artist, Sydney Sun 1945; vice president, Contemporary Art Society 1954. AWARDS: Rowney Prize, 1959; Crouch Prize, Ballarat 1960; Helena Rubenstein scholarship, Brian DUNLOP Melbourne 1960; Dyson endowment award 1960; Twenty Sydney 1938 Nations exhibition, Saigon 1962; occupancy Australian studio, STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1954-59; southern Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris; OBE & Queens Jubilee 1960; Europe & UK 1963-68; Italy 1981-83. APPOINTMENTS: Medal 1977. Teaching, incl. East Sydney Tech, UNSW, NAS 1968-1980s; artist in residence, Uni of Melbourne 1980-81. AWARDS: Le John COBURN AM Gay Brereton Prize AGNSW 1958; Hamilton 1976; Ingham 1925 1976 & 77; Coffs Harbour 1977; Gold Coast 1977; Mornington 1977; Lillian Pederson Prize QAG 1978; John McCaughey Prize STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1947-50. APPOINTMENTS: Graphic AGNSW 1978; Sulman Prize 1980. designer, ABC 1956-59; teaching, East Sydney Tech 1959-67; head, Canberra Tech Art School 1967-69; tapestry designer, Aubusson Paris 1969-72; head, East Sydney Tech 1972-74; Neil EMMERSON trustee, AGNSW 1976-80. AWARDS: Bathurst 1959; Blake Melbourne 1956 Prizes 1960 & 1977; Tamworth 1962; Young 1963; Darcy Morris STUDIES: Warrnambool IAE 1975-77; Newcastle CAE 1982-83 & Memorial 1963; Maitland 1966; AM 1980; honorary doctorate, 1985; City Art Institute 1984 & 1994; SCA 2001. APPOINTMENTS: James Cook 1991. Tutoring Dareton College 1980-81, Newcastle Community Art Centre 1983, NCAE 1985, APW 1988-89; printmaker APW 1988- Ray CROOKE AM 89, Print Council Aust 1988-89; lecturing Uni Melb 1988-89, RMIT Melbourne 1922 1990 & 1992-94, UNE 1991, La Trobe 1994, SCA 1995-98 & 1999, COFA 1999, Aust Catholic Uni 2000-02; committees Gertrude STUDIES: Swinbourne 1946-48. APPOINTMENTS: Official war Street 1988, Print Council 1990, SCA 1995-98. AWARDS: artist, Vietnam 1966. AWARDS: 1969. Maitland 1983 & 1986; VACB grant 1992, 1997 & 1999; NAVA grant 1994; Uni Sydney Award 1998; NSW Ministry program Robert DICKERSON 1999. Sydney 1924 APPOINTMENTS: Professional boxer 1940-44. AWARDS: Clint Dale FRANK Prize 1954; Darcy Morris Memorial 1958; Tumut 1959; RAS Singleton 1959 NSW 1965; Mirror-Waratah prize 1966; Gold Coast 1974; DDB AWARDS: Maitland 1975; Red Cross Prize 1975; Muswellbrook Needham Prize 1990. 1982; Phillip Morris Grant 1988; Geelong 1999.

Sir William DOBELL Hector GILLILAND OAM Newcastle 1899 – 1970 Lake Macquarie Launceston 1911 – 2002 Sydney STUDIES: Apprentice architect, Newcastle 1916-24; Julian STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1935-40; Canberra Uni 1946-48; Ashton, Sydney 1924-29; Slade School, London 1930- Europe 1953-54. APPOINTMENTS: Teacher, Canberra Tech 31; The Hague Holland 1930; Europe & London 1931-39. 1948-52, NGV 1958, UNSW 1959-77, East Sydney Tech 1970-74.

44 AWARDS: Yorick Club 1955; Bathurst 1955, 1957 & 1960; ass dir, City Art Institute 1982-89; professor COFA 1991-94. Perth 1956; Maude Vizard-Wholohan prize 1958; Rockdale AWARDS: Wollongong 1965 & 1973; 1966; Royal 1958; Albury 1960 & 1962; Mirror-Waratah prizes 1961 & 1964; Art Society prizes 1967 & 1969; Maitland 1968; Muswellbrook Ballarat 1961; Leeton 1962; Grenfell 1962; Young 1962; Grace 1968; TAA Australian prize 1970; Gold Coast 1971; Flotta Lauro Prize 1963; Tumut 1963; Berrima 1963 & 1964; Grafton 1963 & travelling scholarship 1971. 1965; RAgSNSW 1964; Wellington 1964; Maitland 1965 & 1969; VACB exhibition grants 1975 & 1977. Michael KMIT Stryj Ukraine 1910 – 1981 Sydney AO James GLEESON STUDIES Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow. APPOINTMENTS: Sydney 1915 teaching in Lvov, Poland, and Landeck, after WW2. STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1931-36; Sydney Teachers College AWARDS: 1953; Perth 1954; Critics Prize 1955; Darcy 1937-38; Europe & UK 1947-49; Europe 1958-59; USA 1959. Morris prize 1956; Sulman Prizes 1957 & 70; Melrose 1967. APPOINTMENTS: Lecturing Sydney Teachers College 1945-46; art critic Sydney Sun 1949-72, Sun-Herald 1962-74; lecturing Louis KAHAN AO Orient Line Exhibitions 1956 & 1964-67; director Sir William Austria 1905 – 2002 Melbourne Dobell Art Foundation 1971-94; judging panel 11th Bienale de Sao Paolo, 1971; commissioner 12th Bienale de Sao Paolo, STUDIES: Academie Colarossi, Paris 1946; Paris & London 1954- 1972; deputy chair VACB 1973-76; chair acquisitions & 58. APPOINTMENTS: French Foreign Legion 1939; war artist council NGA 1976-82; visiting curator NGA 1975; foundation 1942-45; artist Le Figaro 1946; Perth 1947-50; artist Meanjin. member International Association of Art Critics. AWARDS: AWARDS: Albury 1953; Mosman 1959; Archibald Prize 1962; CAS prize 1941; AM 1975; honorary doctorate, Macquarie RNAgQ 1964, 1966 & 1967; Bendigo 1965; Kinsella 1976; 1989; AO 1990. Worland 1976; Caulfield 1980; Drummoyne 1993; AO 1993.

Newton HEDSTROM Tim LEURA TJAPALTJARRI Sydney 1914 Napperby 1939 – 1984 Papunya STUDIES: NAS 1932-34; J.S Watkins School 1934-35; RMIT STUDIES: Ceremonial training. APPOINTMENTS: Stockman, NT. 1943-45; travel studies UK, Europe, 1976, 80, 83. AWARDS: Mosman 1948; Manly 1969 & 1970; Caltex Prize 1971; Sydney John MARTIN art society prizes 1975, 1978 & 1985; Mercantile Credits Sydney 1942 Competition 1985. STUDIES: NAS 1960-61; Europe & UK 1972-74. APPOINTMENTS: Lecturing, Newcastle CAE 1974-1980, UNSW 1981-91, Sali HERMAN CMG OBE University of Wollongong 1986-87, University of Newcastle Zurich Switzerland 1898 – 1993 Sydney 2001; Mayor of Maitland City 1994-97. AWARDS: Maitland STUDIES: Zurich Tech 1914-16; Paris 1920-23; George Bell 1937. 1976 & 1986. APPOINTMENTS: Official war artist 1945-46. AWARDS: Wynne Prizes 1944, 1962 & 1965; Sulman Prizes 1946 & 1948; Bendigo John MORRIS 1948 & 1949; Geelong 1948; Brisbane 1958; Maitland 1959, Newcastle 1954 1960 & 1962; Wagga Wagga 1958; McCaughey prize 1959; Tumut 1959; Newcastle 1962; RAgSNSW 1964; OBE 1971; CMG STUDIES: Newcastle CAE 1971-76, Uni Newcastle 1988-89. 1982. APPOINTMENTS: Teaching, Hunter Institute of Tech 1988-2003. AWARDS: Maitland 1992; Newcastle 1995 & 1996 Sir Hans HEYSEN OBE Hamburg Germany 1877 – 1968 Hahndorf Sir Sidney NOLAN AC CBE Melbourne 1917 – 1992 London England STUDIES: Norwood Art School; Adelaide School of Design; Academie des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1899-1903. APPOINTMENTS: STUDIES: Prahran Tech 1932; NGV school 1934 & 1936; Atelier Trustee AGSA 1940-68. AWARDS: Wynne Prizes 1904, 1909, 17, Paris; SW Hayter 1957-58. APPOINTMENTS: Advisor, 1911, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1931, 1932; Crouch prize 1931; Venice Bienale 1954. AWARDS: Dunlop prize 1950; Italian Vizard-Wholohan prize 1957; OBE 1954; knighted 1959. Government scholarship 1956; Harkness Fellowship1958-60; ANU fellowship 1965; Britannica Australia award 1969; CBE 1963; Knight Bachelor 1981. Col JORDAN Sydney 1935 Margaret OLLEY AO STUDIES: Balmain Teachers College 1954-55; Sydney 1957- Kyogle 1923 62. APPOINTMENTS: Teaching, NSW D Ed 1960s; lecturing STUDIES: Brisbane City Tech; East Sydney Tech 1945; La Wollongong Inst Education 1970-74, NAS 1975-82; dean & Grande Chaumiere, Paris 1949; Papua New Guinea 1966-68,

45 SE Asia 1969; USA & Europe 1980-89. AWARDS: Mosman 1947; Bruce ROWLAND Lismore 1958; Redcliffe 1962, 1963 & 1965; Helena Rubenstein Sydney 1946 Portrait Prize 1962; Finney Prize 1963; Johnsonian Club Prize 1964; Toowoomba 1965; Bendigo 1965; Aberdare 1986; AM STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1962-66, University College London 1991; honorary doctorate, Macquarie 1991; life governor, 1969-70, Newcastle CAE 1977-78. APPOINTMENTS: teaching, AGNSW 1992. Newcastle Tech 1968-83; head teacher Gymea Tech 1983- 86, Wollongong Tech 1986-87, Newcastle Tech 1987-92, Hunter Institute Tech 1992-95 & 1997-2003; acting director John OLSEN AO OBE Hunter Institute Tech 1996-97. AWARDS: Raymond Terrace Newcastle 1928 1971 & 2000. STUDIES: Julian Ashton; Orban School 1950-56; SW Hayter, Paris 1957-60; Spain 1965-67; UK, Europe & USA 1983. Joshua SMITH APPOINTMENTS: Lecturing, UNSW 1960-61; principal, Bakery Sydney 1905 Art School 1967-70; trustee, AGNSW 1977-80. AWARDS: Rockdale 1960; Brisbane 1961; Perth 1961; Sydney 1961; STUDIES: East Sydney Tech 1927; Julian Ashton 1929- Georges Prize 1963; Launceston 1964; Wynne Prizes 1969 & 31. APPOINTMENTS: Camouflage artist, WW2. AWARDS: 1985; OBE 1977; Sulman Prize 1989; Australia Council 5 year Archibald Prize 1944; Katoomba 1962. fellowship 1993. Lezlie TILLEY Clifton PUGH AO Sydney 1949 Melbourne 1924 – 1990 Melbourne STUDIES: NAS, East Sydney Tech 1967; Newcastle School of STUDIES: NGV School 1947-50. APPOINTMENTS: Soldier, Art & Design 1973-75 & 1979-80; Newcastle CAE, 1981-83. AIF, New Guinea 1943-45 & Japan 1946; member APPOINTMENTS: Teaching, Hunter Institute of Technology Commonwealth Arts Advisory Board; member Visual Arts 1986-2003; lecturing, University of Newcastle, 1994-97. Board of the Australia Council 1972; official war artist, ANZAC AWARDS: NSW Special Art Scholarship 1967; Von Bertouch 75th anniversary, Gallipoli 1989. AWARDS: Vizard-Wholohan Prize, 1980; Dattilo Rubbo Prize 1984; Weston 1992; Singleton Prize 1958; Ballarat 1958; Crouch Prize 1960, RAgSNSW 1965; 1993; Muswellbrook 1993, 1997 & 2000; Newcastle 1994, 1998 Archibald Prizes 1965, 1971 & 1972; Caltex Prize 1976; Albury- & 1999; Maitland 1998 & 2002; Gosford 2003. Wodonga 1976; AM 1985. Peter TILLEY Lloyd REES AC CMG Melbourne 1946 Yeronga 1895 – 1988 Sydney STUDIES: Newcastle School Art & Design 1973-75 & 1978-79; STUDIES: Brisbane Tech 1910-16; UK & Europe 1923-24, 1953, Malaysia 1975-77. APPOINTMENTS: RAAF 1963-78. AWARDS: 1959, 1966 & 1973; Chelsea Polytechnic, London 1923. Von Bertouch Prize 1979; Maitland 1992; Newcastle 1992, APPOINTMENTS: Artist, Ure Smith 1917; lecturing, teaching 1993 & 1998; Port Stephens 1992 & 1993; Stanthorpe 1992; & dean, Sydney 1946-70; advisor to Felton Bequest; advisor Muswellbrook 1992 & 2000. to Bendigo Art Gallery, 1949; president, NSW Society of Artists 1961-65; member, National Advisory Committee for Brett WHITELEY AO UNESCO & chair, Visual Arts Committee 1964-69. AWARDS: Sydney 1939 – 1992 Thirroul Silver medal, Paris Exposition 1937; Godfrey Rivers Prize STUDIES: Julian Ashton 1957-59. APPOINTMENTS: Commercial 1941; Wynne Prizes 1950 & 1982; Commonwealth Jubilee artist Lintas Sydney 1956-59AWARDS: Bathurst prize 1956; Prize 1951; Ku-ring-gai 1951; Dunlop Prize 1954, RAgSNSW Italian travelling scholarship 1960; Dyson grant 1961; 1958; Brisbane 1964; honorary doctorates, Sydney 1970 & Commonwealth Art Advisory Board scholarship 1961; 1984; McCaughey Prizes 1971, 1979 & 1983; CMG Biennale de Paris international prize 1961; Perth 1965; 1977; FRAI 1979; Mosman 1981; AC 1985; Jack Manton Prize Harkness scholarship 1967; Sir William Angliss Prize 1975; 1987; Medaille de la Ville de Paris 1987. McCaughey Prizes 1975, 1976 & 1977; Archibald Prizes 1976 & 1978; Sulman Prizes 1976 & 1978; Wynne Prizes 1977, 1978 Brian ROBERTS & 1984. Brighton 1934 STUDIES: Melbourne College of Graphic Arts 1949 – 1956 APPOINTMENTS: Art director & filmmaker London 1956-61, Chicago 1961-73; gallery director Impressions Melbourne 1975-77, Signed Editions Melbourne 1977-79; teaching Baulkham Hills TAFE 1980s, Hawksebury College 1980s, Avondale College 1996. AWARDS: Liverpool 1992; Newcastle 1993 & 1994; RAgNSW 1999; Maitland 2001 & 2003.

46 Acknowledgements

Thanks to the many institutions and individuals who have contributed to Hidden Treasures: The Maitland Collection. This exhibition and catalogue have been made possible with funding from Maitland City Council and the support of Judy Jaeger in particular. Allan Neader from Neader’s Print Sevices has also been very generous.

Thanks to Jill Stowell whose essay was written at short notice and despite her own busy schedule. It was not an easy task. Thanks also to Jill for her invaluable curatorial advice.

Thanks to Sam Pryor whose design and graphics expertise has lent the catalogue such an easy grace. Thanks to Brian Roberts and Shirley Cameron-Roberts for their guidance and design suggestions: their enthusiasm for this project and for the gallery in general has been greatly appreciated. Thanks also to Ian Hamilton for photographing the collection and without whose advice and contacts this catalogue would not have been possible.

I am grateful for the many people who have helped obtain permission to reproduce works: the artists, their families and agents including Gil Docking, Roslyn Oxley, Norma Kmit, Shane Pugh, Yves Close, Sam Dickerson and Wendy Whiteley; Tom Dickson from Viscopy; Alice Livingstone from the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Geoffrey Smith and Jenny Maloney from National Gallery of . Thanks also to Anne McLaughlin for her copyright advice.

Thanks to Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery for storing works and thanks to Margaret Sivyer for information on the history of the gallery and the Maitland Prize.

My personal thanks to Peter and Lezlie Tilley. Their encouragement has seen me through many moments of self-doubt.

Finally, I especially acknowledge Kim Blunt who has worked tirelessly as assistant curator on Hidden Treasures: The Maitland Collection. Thank you Kim.

Paul Magin

47 Curator Paul Magin

Assistant Curator Kim Blunt

Editor Paul Magin

Designer Sam Pryor

Photographer Ian Hamilton

Printer Allan Neader

Installation Peter Joass

Sam Pryor

Kim Blunt

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