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Art Gallery of South Australia 2008 Australia
Clarice Beckett
Australia, 1887 - 1935
c.1933, Melbourne
oil on canvas laid on pulpboard
51.0 x 43.7 cm
Gift of Sir Edward Hayward 1980
Misty Moderns
Australian Tonalists 1910 -1950
Art Gallery of South Australia
Friday 15 August 2008 to Sunday 19 October 2008
Exhibition
previously on
at
Art Gallery of South Australia
in
Adelaide precinct,
South Australia,
Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia is staging the first major exhibition of the Australian tonalist painter, Max Meldrum and his school. Despite being regarded as one of the most authorative teachers and theorists of the interwar period, the breadth of Meldrum’s influence is yet to be fully assessed.
With this is mind, in addition to the inclusion of works by his best-known followers such as Clarice Beckett, Percy Leason and Colin Colahan, this exhibition will also demonstrate the lesser-known influence of Meldrum’s ideas on the formative work of Australian modernists, such as Roy de Maistre, Roland Wakelin, Lloyd Rees, Arnold Shore and William Frater.
It is anticipated that this display will provide a long awaited and unprecedented opportunity to reevaluate Meldrum’s affect on the wider development of Australian modernism, and evaluate its bearing on successive generations of Australian painters.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated comprehensive catalogue and will tour nationally to McClelland Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, SH Ervin Gallery and the University of Queensland Art Gallery through 2008/09.
Curated by Tracey Lock-Weir, Curator of Australian Paintings & Sculpture
Event Cost (free/ticketed)
Adult $10
Concession $8
Members $6
Children (U16) FREE
Student 16 & over $6
