VISION SPLENDID – CHINA IN AUSTRALIA IMAGES ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NATIONAL LIBRARY HARDY WILSON FAMILY HAROLD CAZNEAUX ERYLDENE William Hardy Wilson 1881-1955 GRAND TOUR 1905-1910 “Caledonian Cattle Market at Islington, where second hand dealers sold ‘splendid old furniture for shillings’, lovely textiles, old fans and countless Chinese ornaments, including booty from the Boxer rebellion, artefacts dug up from excavations of railway tracks being laid across the country, and also the subsequent occupation of Beijing by the Allies.” Assisi. Church of St Francis. Decorations of Giotto. Hardy Wilson took a nap under an Ilex tree and dreamt of St Francis leading a procession of a hundred or more Chinese gentlemen resplendent in their long silky gowns. WHW says many years later: ‘a group of Chinese to see Giotto’s at Assisi is no more strange than a group of Italians at a Temple of Confucius in Peking. The world is one.’ THE GRANGE DARLINGHURST, SYDNEY 1910 The Grange Photograph by Henry King, 1912 ERYLDENE McINTOSH STREET, GORDON 1913, 1921, 1927 Design for Eryldene Garden Study, c1921 Garden Study, Eryldene, 1921 Photograph by Harold Cazneaux, 1924 Eryldene Pigeon House, 1921 Eryldene Tea House 1927 Cow Pasture Road, 1920 The Alchemist at Carn Hill Carn Hill inspired by Hill of Longevity in Shou Shan, the Taoist Paradise Shou or longevity mark Red Crow with 3 feet – fruitfulness and immortality Bat.Phoenix.Dragon.Waves. Platypus. Stork Cow Pasture Road, 1920 OLD COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN NSW AND TASMANIA 1912-1924 ‘The Chinese ‘circle’ was then a favourite form with Australian colonial builders as it was in China centuries earlier.’ Wrote ‘Foreword’ after China visit (1921) – finished drawings 1922-23. Gate Lodge at Winbourne, Mulgoa NSW Old Colonial Architecture in NSW and Tasmania 1924 Fernhill, Mulgoa NSW Old Colonial Architecture in NSW and Tasmania 1924 Greystanes, Prospect NSW Old Colonial Architecture in NSW and Tasmania 1924 Bungarribee, Eastern Creek NSW Old Colonial Architecture in NSW and Tasmania 1924 Post 1921 - Chooks Accommodation House, Bothwell, Tasmania Old Colonial Architecture in NSW and Tasmania 1924 Post 1921 Pagoda-shaped topiary Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 Monument of Lysicrates, Athens Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 The Parthenon at Athens “Foreground family of phoenixes, and a chicken. Architectural birds. Parent birds of the sun, symbols of fertility, had a brood of three – to express European , Chinese and new architecture of East and West. The chicken, symbol of the coming of the style was parading before the family with a feeling of pride, but not yet sure of himself.” But where is the chicken? Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 Atomic Civilization, 1949 Monument of Lysicrates, Athens Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 Monument of Atomic Hope Lyrebird. Clouds. Chinese wise men. Buddha. ‘Catholicism’, ‘Communism’. Clouds. Atomic Cloud. Chinese junk. Pagoda trees. Atomic Civilization, 1949 Temple of Green Jade Clouds Atomic Civilization, 1949 Meeting of East and West Atomic Civilization, 1949 West Gate of Celestion Atomic Civilization, 1949 Peace of East and West Atomic Civilization, 1949 ‘Kurrajong’, 1950 Temple of Heaven Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 Kurrajong Rising Mist, 1950-1954 Echo Temple Grecian and Chinese Architecture,1937 Kurrajong Library, 1950-1954 Hall of Classics at the Temple of Confucius Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 Doorway in the Summer Palace Peking Grecian and Chinese Architecture, 1937 Kurrajong Octroi,1950-1954 Jade Belt Bridge Summer Palace Dragon screen at the Imperial Palace, Beijing UNESCO WHC Collection The Summer Palace Bridge Dragon Screen at the Winter Palace Grose Gate Kurrajong 1950-1954 ODDS Life to earth Phoenix. Pheasant. sunflower.lyrebird.turkey legs. Sun. Foxtail. Yin-yang “Flew to Bourke in a ‘butter plane’ to create a town plan. School of Arts Bourke borrowed features from the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha in Peking.” East Entrance School of Arts Bourke, 1954 ‘Virgin Mary = Kwan Yin’ Lachlan underneath ‘Jerusalem’, Purulia Photograph by Harold Cazneaux c.1924 .