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Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of shed on Churchill Island
Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century to the present. Black and white photograph with white border of farm machinery and items set up for an exhibition in a shed on Churchill Island.Catalogue number written on reverse in pencilchurchill island -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - 124 Ross Street, Port Melbourne, Jack Bolt, 23 Dec 2012
Ten photos of 124 Ross St, formerly the home of "Mary the Cat Lady" (Mary Jones) The property is boarded up and fenced off prior to sale and demoltion. Mary was the subject of a one page entry (page 39) in "Women of Port Melbourne : Guide to the Exhibition" which included a photo of the houses and a sketch of Mary. Pictures of the site post demolition are Catalogue number 3467.01-.03built environment - domestic, domestic life, mary the cat lady, mary jones, jack bolt, women of port melbourne -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: MAPLES PRAHRAN
... there was a catalogue of their antique exhibition being posted to her... commerce business trade antiques exhibition correspondence A letter ...A letter with red print in the letter head from Maples Furniture, Pianos, Radios Prahran to Mrs. Lydia Chancellor 'Taraxville' Golden Square, Victoria. They are notifying her there was a catalogue of their antique exhibition being posted to her for perusal. 16th April 1948.communication, postal, letters, lydia chancellor collection, collection, commerce, business, trade, antiques, exhibition, correspondence -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA
A yellow catalogue published by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria Bendigo & District Branch. It is presenting the ' Golden Days Historical Exhibition ' at the R.S.L. Memorial Hall, Pall Mall, Bendigo 12th to 17th August 1960. The categories of exhibits are antiques, bush ranging, coins and tokens, documents, fashions, firearms, geology, gold mining, pioneers, postal history, prints and photography, shipping and sport. Within the catalogue are Bendigo Advertiser July and August cuttings relating to the exhibition.history, australian, exhibition, lydia chancellor collection, collection, bendigo, australia, royal historical society of victoria, exhibits, bendigo city council -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: NORMAN PENROSE
Various items of interest related to the work of Mr. Norman Penrose who held an exhibition of his water color work at the Hotel Shamrock, Bendigo on Monday, October 2nd. 1950. Included is a programme of his work at the exhibition and Bendigo Advertiser cuttings. See also Norman Penrose Collection catalogue number 2214artwork, water colour, norman penrose, lydia chancellor collection, collection, painter, artist, male, individual, colors, colours, exhibition -
Monbulk RSL Sub Branch
Susan Jennison et al, Keilor's Anzac memory, 2015
... soldiers - victoria - keilor An exhibition catalogue. A history ...An exhibition catalogue. A history of Keilor's contribution to the 1914-18 war effort. Included are sections dealing with the local effort as well as details of the campaigns fought in. A roll of honour concludes the work. Includes illustrations, maps and photographs and bibliography.Bibliography, ill, p.233.non-fictionAn exhibition catalogue. A history of Keilor's contribution to the 1914-18 war effort. Included are sections dealing with the local effort as well as details of the campaigns fought in. A roll of honour concludes the work. Includes illustrations, maps and photographs and bibliography. world war 1914-1918 - australian participation, soldiers - victoria - keilor -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - S T GILLS BENDIGO, 1993
S T Gill's Bendigo, published by the Bendigo Art Gallery for an exhibitiion 1st September - 17th October 1993. 48 pages with coloured and black and white prints. Authored by David Thomas. Printed by Richard Cambridge Printers.David Thomasbooks, catalogues, art gallery, bendigo-art gallery-exhibitions-gill -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION MELBOURNE 1888-9 OFFICIAL RECORD, 1890
Official record of the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne 1888-1889 containing a sketch of the industrial and economic progress of the Australasian colonies during the first century of their existence and of the exhibition held in Melbourne, Victoria to commemorate the close of that period, also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commissioners, the catalogue of exhibits together with sundry illustrations. Published by authority of the executive commissioners, printed by Sands & Mcdougall Ltd 1138 pages with a pull out map.book, exhibitions, exhibitions, centennial international exhibition, awards -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO CULTURES, 1997
... Through the eyes of two cultures. A catalogue... Aboriginal artists. Through the eyes of two cultures. A catalogue ...Through the eyes of two cultures. A catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by artists Zhou Xiaoping & Jimmy Pike held at the National Gallery of China Beijing, created by the Golden Dragon Museum & sponsored by Arts Victoria, Australia Council for the arts & Foreign Affairs and trade. Coloured photographs of artworks.art, aboriginal, art, zhou xiaoping, jimmy pike, golden dragon museum, aboriginal artists. -
Dutch Australian Heritage Centre Victoria
Book of Photographs, Fotografie in Bezettingstijd (Photos from the Occupation Years), 1993
The German occupation during WWII lives on in the memories of those who survived and the relatives of victims. Many Dutch emigrated during the post-war years but maintained their connection with the home country. This item was most likely acquired during a visit at the time of the 1993 exhibition of which it is the catalogue.Soft cover publication containing numerous photos taken between May 1940 and May 1945, the years of occupation by Germany. The contents have been assembled by René Kok, Herman Selier and Erik Somers from the National Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam. Publisher is Waanders in Zwolle. A single page Foreword was written by Dr .L. de Jong. The six divisions are headed: Introduction, Press Photography, Professional Photography, Colour Photography, Amateur Photography, Illegal Photography. The back cover carries 6 thumbnails indicative of the 6 divisions and a sticker showing the price of €14.95. -
Clunes Museum
Programme - CATALOGUE, CTDA, 1974
Catalogue, of paintings, woven articles, pottery for an exhibition 9th November to 16th November 1974. Printed on front cover "The Clunes Tourist and Development Association Catalogue"Some items have a blue biro asterix beside them exhibition, ctda -
Puffing Billy Railway
Sectioned Tangye Steam Operated Water Pump, 1900s
Sectioned steam pump so that the pump workings can be seen. Inscriptions & Markings: Tangye Birmingham, This steam pump was presented by the colonial gas Assn Ltd (brass plaque) The Colonial Gas Association was originally formed in London on 2 February 1888, as The Australasian Gas Association Limited. The primary objective of the company was to provide investment capital to help finance the construction and management of gasworks being established by the London engineering firm John Coates & Co in metropolitan cities and regional towns throughout Australia and New Zealand. By 1890, the Australasian Gas Association had acquired gasworks at Benalla, Shepparton, Wangaratta, Warragul, Maldon and Seymour, and had constructed a large gasworks at Box Hill to supply the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. In 1893, the company's name was changed to the Colonial Gas Association Limited. During the 1890s, the company acquired regional gasworks in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia, followed by its first gasworks in New South Wales, in 1911. In 1914, the company consolidated its metropolitan supply area by purchasing the Oakleigh and Footscray gasworks. Further expansion occurred in the 1920s with the purchase of established gasworks at Williamstown, Frankston and Dandenong and the acquisition of ten further gas undertakings in Queensland and New South Wales, making the firm the fifth largest gas producer in Australia. info from The Colonial Gas Association Limited, circa 1893 https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1553322 Originally formed by the five Tangye brothers from Cornwall as James Tangye & Brothers in 1857, this Birmingham engineering firm grew to become one of the largest suppliers of jacks, pumps, steam and oil engines, hydraulic presses, gas producers and machine tools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The successful sideways launching of I.K. Brunel's 'Great Eastern' from the mud of the Thames in 1857 using Tangyes hydraulic jacks gave the firm much needed publicity and new orders flowed in. To finance expansion, George Price provided additional capital and the company name became Tangye Brothers & Price in 1859. A new factory known as the 'Cornwall Works' was built in Clement Street, Birmingham. In 1872, the firm became Tangye Brothers and in about 1879- 1880 began production of internal combustion stationary engines based on Horace Robinson's patents, later using the Otto four-stroke design for its Soho range of gas engines. Examples of the Soho engine were exhibited by the firm at the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition. Petrol and oil engines were made from the 1890s onward, and by 1910 had developed into the Model B, BR and AA series engines. Tangyes supplied custom-built pumps and presses for particular applications, becoming a major exporter of engineering equipment. In 1884, Tangye Brothers opened a custom-built branch office, showroom and warehouse in Melbourne at Cornwall House in Collins Street West, advertising the full range of engineering products. These lantern slides images are taken from Tangyes product catalogues from the 1910-1925 period and are believed to have been used as sales promotional aids in Australia by the Tangye Brothers. info from https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/4670 Historic - Industrial Steam Operated Water Pump built by Tangye Bros and used by the Colonial Gas Company - Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaSectioned steam pump so that the pump workings can be seen. Tangye Birmingham, This steam pump was presented by the colonial gas Assn Ltd (brass plaque)puffing billy, steam pump, sectioned, tangye bros -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Primitive Art Exhibition, 1943
Dr. Leonhard Adam studied both Anthropology and Jurisdiction as a young man. Dr. Leonhard Adam's daughter, Mary Clare Adam Murvitz, presented this collection of her Father's printed archival material to Tatura Museum on 17.2.2006. In 1934 he fled from Germany seeking refuge in England. In 1940 he was interned as a security risk in England, sent to Australia in June, 1940. Interned in Camp 2 until 1942, released to Melbourne University where he catalogued aboriginal artefacts.Soft cream coloured cover with black and red writing. 8 pages of photographs.leonhard adams, mary clare adam murvitz, camp 2 tatura -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Streetscape, 1998
Printed in 1998 as a record of the exhibition held at Shepparton Art Gallery, July, 1998. Booklet deals with early architecture in Shepparton Region, includes maps, plans, photographic images and catalogue of 100 years of progress. Soft cardboard, light grey background with Shepparton Post Office fascade and first floor plan on front cover, view of the building from Wyndham Street and ground floor plan on back cover. The word "streetscape" printed across front seven times. early buildings, shepparton art gallery exhibitions, shepparton architecture, shepparton photographic images -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Feu Nos Peres, 2006
... This is a copy of the catalogue of the exhibition... Tatura the-murray This is a copy of the catalogue ...This is a copy of the catalogue of the exhibition of Mutsumi Tsuda held in New Caledonia in September, 2006Soft cover book. Reprints of photos of various people and families on front and back covers. Coloured and black and white photos. Text in French and Japanese. Titles of book printed in Red. 100 pagesfeu nos peres, tsuda, mutsumi, new caledonia, camp 4, tatura, ww2 camps -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Document, Feu Nos Peres, 2006
... This is a copy of the english translation of a catalogue... of a catalogue of an exhibition of Mutsumi Tsuda in New Caledonia held ...This is a copy of the english translation of a catalogue of an exhibition of Mutsumi Tsuda in New Caledonia held in September, 2006Loose page document, stapled together in upper left hand corner. Translation of book (catalogue) of the same title into English (C1917)feu nos peres, tsuda, mutsumi, camp 4, tatura, ww2 camps -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Jubilee Exhibition of Australian Art, 1951 and 1985
Dr. Leonhard Adam studied both Anthropology and Jurisdiction as a young man. Dr. Leonhard Adam's daughter, Mary Clare Adam Murvitz, presented this collection of her Father's printed archival material to Tatura Museum on 17.2.2006. in 1934 he fled from Germany seeking refuge in England. In 1940 he was interned as a security risk in England, sent to Australian in June, 1940. Interned in Camp 2 until 1942, released to Melbourne University where he catalogued aboriginal artefacts.Soft grey cover with Australian Emblem in white printing and red printing on the cover. Also loose in the book a white card with black writing on it "Sir Hano Heysen ms A998. Tape recording NL.M888. Tape no. 27 pp 309-311 " on one side and "pp 4-7, pp 22-26, pp 50-51" on the other side. A newspaper cutting from The Herald, Thurs., Oct 17, 1985 titled "Life on the Dunera was no TV soap opera"books, jubilee exhibition of australian art, leonhard adam -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Booklet, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Buildings for Business and Government, 1957
... Catalogue of an exhibition on show at MOMA (25 Feb - 28... melbourne Catalogue of an exhibition on show at MOMA (25 Feb - 28 ...Catalogue of an exhibition on show at MOMA (25 Feb - 28 April 1957) during Robin Boyd's time of America. Includes articles on 6 American buildings of the 1950s, architects including Edward D Stone, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki.buildings, architecture, edward d stone, skidmore owings and merrill, mies van der rohe, philip johnson, eero saarinen, minoru yamasaki, museum of modern art, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Booklet, Georges Gallery Melbourne, "Some Interesting Australians", 1967
This exhibition includes 'Mrs Penleigh Boyd' by E. Phillips Fox on loan from Mr and Mrs Robin Boyd.A catalogue for a Loan Collection of Portraits August 8th-26th 1967, Georges Gallery Melbourne, with 85 portraits.art. portraiture, prominent australians, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Frances Carey and Antony Griffiths, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec: French lithographs 1860-1900, 1978
... Softcover, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Department... melbourne Walsh St library Softcover, Catalogue of an exhibition ...Softcover, Catalogue of an exhibition at the Department of Prints and drawings in the British Museum 1978walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Bede Nairn, Geoffrey Serle, Australian Dictionary of Biography : Volume 7 1891-1939, 1979
Hardcover w/ Dust JacketMelbourne University Press Biographies Catalogue, Subscription card and Corrigenda. Newspaper clipping of an article by Giles Auty about an Arthur Boyd painting exhibition at Philip Bacon Galleries in Brisbane.biography, dictionary, australian biography, walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Thomas Krens and Lisa Dennison, Masterpieces from the Guggenheim, 1991
... . This is a catalogue for exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW... melbourne Walsh St library . This is a catalogue for exhibition ...Softcover. This is a catalogue for exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW in Sept 1991-Jan 1992walsh st library -
Robin Boyd Foundation
Book, Philip Goad, Robin Boyd - The Architect as Critic: A Bibliography, 1989
Spiral Bound Typewritten manuscriptDraft (dated 6/6/1989) of catalogue publication to accompany the 1989 exhibition at State Library of Victoria of the same namerobin boyd, architecture, australia, bibliography, 20th century, walsh st library -
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages
Periodical, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Aboriginal studies : journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2008
1. Rock-art of the Western Desert and Pilbara: Pigment dates provide new perspectives on the role of art in the Australian arid zone Jo McDonald (Australian National University) and Peter Veth (Australian National University) Systematic analysis of engraved and painted art from the Western Desert and Pilbara has allowed us to develop a spatial model for discernable style provinces. Clear chains of stylistic connection can be demonstrated from the Pilbara coast to the desert interior with distinct and stylistically unique rock-art bodies. Graphic systems appear to link people over short, as well as vast, distances, and some of these style networks appear to have operated for very long periods of time. What are the social dynamics that could produce unique style provinces, as well as shared graphic vocabularies, over 1000 kilometres? Here we consider language boundaries within and between style provinces, and report on the first dates for pigment rock-art from the Australian arid zone and reflect on how these dates from the recent past help address questions of stylistic variability through space and time. 2. Painting and repainting in the west Kimberley Sue O?Connor, Anthony Barham (Australian National University) and Donny Woolagoodja (Mowanjum Community, Derby) We take a fresh look at the practice of repainting, or retouching, rockart, with particular reference to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. We discuss the practice of repainting in the context of the debate arising from the 1987 Ngarinyin Cultural Continuity Project, which involved the repainting of rock-shelters in the Gibb River region of the western Kimberley. The ?repainting debate? is reviewed here in the context of contemporary art production in west Kimberley Indigenous communities, such as Mowanjum. At Mowanjum the past two decades have witnessed an artistic explosion in the form of paintings on canvas and board that incorporate Wandjina and other images inspired by those traditionally depicted on panels in rock-shelters. Wandjina also represents the key motif around which community desires to return to Country are articulated, around which Country is curated and maintained, and through which the younger generations now engage with their traditional lands and reach out to wider international communities. We suggest that painting in the new media represents a continuation or transference of traditional practice. Stories about the travels, battles and engagements of Wandjina and other Dreaming events are now retold and experienced in the communities with reference to the paintings, an activity that is central to maintaining and reinvigorating connection between identity and place. The transposition of painting activity from sites within Country to the new ?out-of-Country? settlements represents a social counterbalance to the social dislocation that arose from separation from traditional places and forced geographic moves out-of-Country to government and mission settlements in the twentieth century. 3. Port Keats painting: Revolution and continuity Graeme K Ward (AIATSIS) and Mark Crocombe (Thamarrurr Regional Council) The role of the poet and collector of ?mythologies?, Roland Robinson, in prompting the production of commercial bark-painting at Port Keats (Wadeye), appears to have been accepted uncritically - though not usually acknowledged - by collectors and curators. Here we attempt to trace the history of painting in the Daly?Fitzmaurice region to contextualise Robinson?s contribution, and to evaluate it from both the perspective of available literature and of accounts of contemporary painters and Traditional Owners in the Port Keats area. It is possible that the intervention that Robinson might have considered revolutionary was more likely a continuation of previously well established cultural practice, the commercial development of which was both an Indigenous ?adjustment? to changing socio-cultural circumstances, and a quiet statement of maintenance of identity by strong individuals adapting and attempting to continue their cultural traditions. 4. Negotiating form in Kuninjku bark-paintings Luke Taylor (AIATSIS) Here I examine social processes involved in the manipulation of painted forms of bark-paintings among Kuninjku artists living near Maningrida in Arnhem Land. Young artists are taught to paint through apprenticeships that involve exchange of skills in producing form within extended family groups. Through apprenticeship processes we can also see how personal innovations are shared among family and become more regionally located. Lately there have been moves by senior artists to establish separate out-stations and to train their wives and daughters to paint. At a stylistic level the art now creates a greater sense of family autonomy and yet the subjects link the artists back in to much broader social networks. 5. Making art and making culture in far western New South Wales Lorraine Gibson This contribution is based on my ethnographic fieldwork. It concerns the intertwining aspects of the two concepts of art and culture and shows how Aboriginal people in Wilcannia in far western New South Wales draw on these concepts to assert and create a distinctive cultural identity for themselves. Focusing largely on the work of one particular artist, I demonstrate the ways in which culture (as this is considered) is affectively experienced and articulated as something that one ?comes into contact with? through the practice of art-making. I discuss the social and cultural role that art-making, and art talk play in considering, mediating and resolving issues to do with cultural subjectivity, authority and identity. I propose that in thinking about the content of the art and in making the art, past and present matters of interest, of difficulty and of pleasure are remembered, considered, resolved and mediated. Culture (as this is considered by Wilcannia Aboriginal people) is also made anew; it comes about through the practice of artmaking and in displaying and talking about the art work. Culture as an objectified, tangible entity is moreover writ large and made visible through art in ways that are valued by artists and other community members. The intersections between Aboriginal peoples, anthropologists, museum collections and published literature, and the network of relations between, are also shown to have interesting synergies that play themselves out in the production of art and culture. 6. Black on White: Or varying shades of grey? Indigenous Australian photo-media artists and the ?making of? Aboriginality Marianne Riphagen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) In 2005 the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne presented the Indigenous photo-media exhibition Black on White. Promising to explore Indigenous perspectives on non-Aboriginality, its catalogue set forth two questions: how do Aboriginal artists see the people and culture that surrounds them? Do they see non-Aboriginal Australians as other? However, art works produced for this exhibition rejected curatorial constructions of Black and White, instead presenting viewers with more complex and ambivalent notions of Aboriginality and non-Aboriginality. This paper revisits the Black on White exhibition as an intercultural event and argues that Indigenous art practitioners, because of their participation in a process to signify what it means to be Aboriginal, have developed new forms of Aboriginality. 7. Culture production Rembarrnga way: Innovation and tradition in Lena Yarinkura?s and Bob Burruwal?s metal sculptures Christiane Keller (University of Westerna Australia) Contemporary Indigenous artists are challenged to produce art for sale and at the same time to protect their cultural heritage. Here I investigate how Rembarrnga sculptors extend already established sculptural practices and the role innovation plays within these developments, and I analyse how Rembarrnga artists imprint their cultural and social values on sculptures made in an essentially Western medium, that of metal-casting. The metal sculptures made by Lena Yarinkura and her husband Bob Burruwal, two prolific Rembarrnga artists from north-central Arnhem Land, can be seen as an extension of their earlier sculptural work. In the development of metal sculptures, the artists shifted their artistic practice in two ways: they transformed sculptural forms from an earlier ceremonial context and from earlier functional fibre objects. Using Fred Myers?s concept of culture production, I investigate Rembarrnga ways of culture-making. 8. 'How did we do anything without it?': Indigenous art and craft micro-enterprise use and perception of new media technology.maps, colour photographs, b&w photographswest kimberley, rock art, kuninjku, photo media, lena yarinkura, bob burruwal, new media technology -
Villa Alba Museum
Book, British wallpapers on Australia 1870–1940, 1995
... Series. Exhibition catalogue published 1995 by Historic Houses ...Conservation Resources Centre Series. Exhibition catalogue published 1995 by Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. 36 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 x 15 cm.non-fictionConservation Resources Centre Series. Exhibition catalogue published 1995 by Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. 36 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 x 15 cm.wallpapers - history, interior decoration - history, wall coverings - history, elizabeth bay house -- exhibitions -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Booklet - Catalogue, Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition 1861, 1861
... Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition 1861... of fruit Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition 1861 Booklet ...Photocopy of front page and description of wax models of fruitwax models, fruits, victorian exhibition, 1861 -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus Archives
Document, "First Fleet to Contemporary" Art and Horticulture, 1991
Documentation on exhibition The Art of Australian Flora; "First Fleet to Contemporary" held at Burnley. Refer to paper catalogue, Artwork also held - see B10.0137exhibition, art of australian flora -
Clunes Museum
Album - CATALOGUE, 1999
CATALOGUE PROGRAMME OF COURT HOUSE PAINTINGS AT EXHIBITION IN THE HIGHWAY GALLERY 14 HIGHWAY MOUNT WAVERLY 6-30 JUNE 1999..1 A SMALL WHITE BOOKLET FROM THE HIGHWAY GALLERY OF OUR GOLDEN HERITAGE. PRIVATE COLLECTION OF COURT HOUSES OF VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS TOWNS. .2 INVITATION - PRINTED ON GREEN CARD TO EXHIBITION AT MT. WAVERLY 30 - 6 - 1999. .3 LECTURE PROGRAMME FOR OUR GOLDEN HERITAGElocal history, document, catalogue, paintings, paintings of courthouses -
Clunes Museum
Photograph
TWELVE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF TRAVELLING TOBY JUG EXHIBITION FROM SHEPPARTON ART GALLERY. SOME WITH NAMES OF MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS ON BACK. PHOTOGRAPHS CATALOGUED 1845 1 - 12, PHOTOS ON VICTORIAN COLLECTION MARKED 1845 A TO K. local history, photography, photographs, exhibition, toby jug -
Duldig Studio museum + sculpture garden
Drawing, Karl Duldig, The Buddhist Monk, Guangqia by Karl Duldig 1940, 1940
... in the Library where a catalogue of an exhibition, 'Ausstellung... in the Library where a catalogue of an exhibition, 'Ausstellung ...The Buddhist monk Guangqia visited Karl Duldig’s studio on two consecutive days, in the company of the noted Chinese writer, Professor Yu Dafu, a friend of Karl’s. Karl made two portraits of the monk, the first depicting him sitting, and the second in a standing pose. The portraits were drawn using a Chinese brush and Indian ink. Surviving sketches in the Studio’s collection indicate that Karl thought about creating a life-size sculpture later on, but this was not realised. Guangqia added inscriptions in his own hand to both drawings and stamped them with a red seal. The seated drawing has an inscription in which he quoted from a Buddhist poem, ‘A Contented Mind’ by the scholar Lingfeng of Mt Tiantai. In the summer I went to visit the Austrian sculptor Duldig with Professor Yu Da Fu. My virtue is slight – I cannot accept your offerings and gifts; I am amply rewarded by the clouds and springs. Rather than a table laden with pearl-like rice, I prefer the wind and leaves falling on my bed. Sitting quietly on my meditation cushion Is sweeter than the wheat offered by a thousand families. The pity is that I am gradually growing old; My bitter journey is not worthy of your offerings. The second drawing has a quote from a Buddhist poem on the study of Chán (Zen) Buddhism, by the famed Chán master, Dàjiàn Huìnéng (638–713): The portrait, with its figure positioned on a scroll-like ground and inscription is reminiscent of traditional Zen Buddhist portraiture. In this school of portraiture, which stretched back to at least the thirteenth century, monks were depicted sitting or standing facing the viewer, and typically the monk added an autographic inscription to the portrait. The portraits were often passed from master to disciple, continuing the disciples’ journey of spiritual enlightenment and were revered for their association with remarkable or holy priests. The Buddhist monk, Guangqai who added his inscription and stamp to the drawings would most certainly have been aware of this tradition. It is likely that Karl was aware of this tradition, one of the points where the studio’s collections of art works from Singapore intersect with the earlier Viennese collections can be found in the Library where a catalogue of an exhibition, 'Ausstellung Ostasiatischer Malerie und Graphik' is held. The Viennese Friends of Asian Art and Culture and the Albertina Museum staged this exhibition of East Asian painting and graphic works in 1932. Such was the internationalism of Duldig’s education in Vienna, that adaption to a new environment and culture in the Straits Settlement was swift, and he was able to interpret the artistic traditions of the place, and make them his own. It is part of the strength of the collection, that in many cases contemporary supporting documentation for the works of art is available. In this case there is a photograph of the Monk with Yu Ta-fu, and Karl and Eva Duldig, outside the studio at the time the drawings were made. Ann Carew 2016The portraits of Guangqai have national and international aesthetic significance. The works of art demonstrate the artist’s skill in capturing the physical appearance and demeanour of his subject, and his ability to adapt his working methods to incorporate traditional Asian materials and cultural practices. The portrait is one of few examples in Melbourne of a central European modernist artists working in, and engaging with Asia, during this period and it is culturally and aesthetically significant for this reason. The portraits are also historically interesting in documenting the life and experiences of Karl Duldig in the Straits Settlement (Singapore). Ann Carew 2016Brush drawing in chinese ink on paper. Seated Buddhist Monk. Chinese calligraphy hand written in black ink. Two red stamps under calligraphy.Signed Karl Duldig in l.r. corner. Dated Singapore 1940 in l.l. corner.