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Watercolour has long been an important artistic medium in
Queensland and the Gallery has excellent holdings of paintings
by the state’s leading watercolour artists. This exhibition is our first
comprehensive survey of works from the mid-nineteenth century to
the 1980s and incudes a large number of works that have not been
shown previously.
These works fall into several major groupings, ranging from
nineteenth-century works by Conrad Martens, George Seymour
Owen, Harriet Jane Neville Rolfe, Godfrey Rivers, Martyn Roberts
and Isaac Walter Jenner; to modern watercolours by JJ Hilder,
Bessie Gibson, Vida Lahey and Kenneth Macqueen; through the
World War Two and postwar period with war artists such as
Douglas Green and James Wieneke; up to the 1980s and Brisbane
Expressionism, including examples by Jon Molvig, Joy Roggenkamp,
Robyn Mountcastle and Tom Pilgrim.
TRANSPARENT :
WATERCOLOUR IN
QUEENSLAND 1850s–1980s
22 MARCH – 20 JULY 2014 | QAG
Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe
|
Breakfast,Alpha
1884 | Watercolour over pencil on wove paper |
25.3 x 35.4cm | Gift of the artist’s son in her
memory 1964
