100 Works priced under $2,000
Selection of fine paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by some of our favourite artists dating from 1780s to 2023, displayed in chronological order
All works are framed unless stated otherwise
Jeremy Hill will give a Floor Talk on Max Martin in the gallery on Tuesday 21st November at 5 pm
"Enjoying the warmth of the early English summer of 1922 was a little-known Australian artist whose painting was hanging on the line at the Royal Academy Exhibition. Deemed by the art critics to be the picture of the year, Portrait Group (now in the NGV collection), was seen to be 'the most astonishing thing in the Academy'. Frank Rutter, Sunday Times 1922. Lavish again in their praise in 1924, the critics proclaimed Melbourne-born Max Martin’s latest painting ‘that strangely mysterious and remarkably painted work Witchcraft which...
Highlights include:
three important early works by Charles Blackman;
landscapes and portraits from the Boyd and Perceval families;
paintings by Douglas Dundas and John D. Moore from the estate of Sir Howard and Lady Beale;
Francis Lymburner paintings from an estate in London where they were acquired in the 1950s;
three important drawings by Noel Counihan; and
other attractive modern works by Ludmilla Meillerts, Roland Wakelin, Frank Medworth, George Duncan, Sidney Nolan, Vic O'Connor and Clifford Bayliss.
It is fair to say that Peter Trusler's paintings for the book Birds of Australian Gardens are revolutionary, and rank among the finest Australian natural history paintings ever done. He cleverly placed his subjects in urban, domestic and occasionally mundane environments, exactly where many of our native birds now live.
These are the original watercolours for Birds of Australian Gardens and were part of the National Bank Collection of Modern Art from 1980 until 2022.
We have joined forces with Andrew Isles Natural History Books in the promotion of these paintings
illustrated Laughing Kookaburra, Watercolour, 23 x 31 cm
“In the modern world, technological change has brought about disaffiliation. In the case of Australia’s most visible artistic clan, one sees continuity instead of a generation gap, apprenticeships within the family group instead of submission to an impersonal institution... When Australia’s disaffiliated youth were returning to rural life in places like Nimbin in the early seventies, ‘Boyds’ of the postwar baby-boom generation found themselves in the midst of an extended family whose link with the pre-industrial world had never been cut. That is why Tessa and Celia Perceval can work unselfconsciously in the landscape tradition, producing canvases close in inspiration to those...
100 works priced under $2,000
Featuring paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculptures in chronological order
Gallery hours in January - By appointment
Continues through Summer
3-19 November 2022
Julian R. Ashton, Percy Bremer, Margaret Coen, Alfred H. Cook, Noel Counihan, Frank Crozier,
George Duncan, Douglas Dundas, John Eldershaw, A.H Fullwood, Thomas Friedensen,
Herbert Gallop, Mary Hammond, Albert Hanson, Robert Johnson, Norman Lindsay, Percy Lindsay,
Francis Lymburner, Vic O'Connor, Arthur E. Read, Lloyd Rees, John Rowell, Jessie Traill,
Hayward Veal, Edward Warner, J.S Watkins, Harry J. Weston and William Young
Gallery hours Tues-Fri: 11-5pm, Sat: 12-5pm
All works are for sale
Jeff Ferris’ sharp-focus realist works have been remarkably popular at the Gallery ever since our first show back in 2008. Fans of fellow Australian artist, the late Jeffrey Smart, often remark that the striking style of Ferris’ pieces is reminiscent of Smart’s. In fact, the pair used to share correspondence, and Smart was a great admirer of Ferris’, imploring in a 1983 letter that Ferris was “far too modest about [his] work. The landscape is splendid with a marvelous mood to it and a really good sky…”.
As you'll appreciate from the following explanation by Ferris of his motivation for producing...
Modern Australian Paintings
A carefully selected exhibition of fine paintings, drawings and sculpture by Australian artists including Jan Senbergs, Peter Clarke, Celia Perceval, Lucy Boyd, Clifford Bayliss, Peter Trusler, Barry Dickins and others. All works are owned by the artist or their estate unless otherwise stated.
A selection of paintings, prints and photographs
acquired by Peter Brown over the last 60 years
illustrated Lionel Lindsay, Bacchanal 1925
100 Works priced under $2,000
This exhibition opens on Thursday 9th December from 5.30pm
The gallery closes for the summer on December 24th.
During January we are only open by appointment
phone 0419306593 or email the gallery
Photographs 1972-2021
Peter Brown only ever uses a fixed lens and composes the image before he takes the shot. He doesn’t like cropping or excessive editing.
From 1972 to 2000 he used a Nikkorrmat camera he bought in Singapore in 1972. He switched to a Nikon FM2 with a 55 mm lens. In 2015 he changed to a Nikon D600.
They are all stamped and numbered 1/10 on reverse. The photographer will print additional images as required. Maximum 10.
So Hurry!
Peter Brown adopts the philosophy that his art is a ‘journey of discovery’ taking him to all corners of the...
Nada’s works are full of spontaneity and her joyous high keyed paintings place her firmly in the modernist movement. As Spring warms up, enjoy this Floral Celebration.
Sydney Modern Artists
This is a selection of artists working in Sydney between 1930s -1960s. These artists have all appeared in our Modern catalogues over the last 38 years.
Illustrated: George Duncan, Bavaria 1936
Features include two Canberra landscapes painted just before the flooding of Lake Burley Griffin; an early Nude drawing by Frank Hinder shortly after his return from study in America
I hope this Lockdown is not proving too distressing.
Despite Covid, Spring is in the air and I have had a burst of energy and thought you might enjoy this small wall of works new to the Gallery.
Artists include Ethel Spowers, Mary Hammond, Jan Senbergs, Nick Botting, Kevin Foley, Brian Dunlop, Barry Dickins, Brigid Cole-Adams, Lucy Boyd, Brian Pieper, Glenda Fell Jones, Phillipa Bayliss and Sarah Gabriel
The Olympic Games have been a great distraction
but it is time for us to head back to work!
Although, while we are on the subject
here are some pictures from our Sporting category
Featuring a collection of works from our Modern pages
With the end of the financial year approaching this is a good time to brighten up your workplace, help a local artist and lighten your tax burden!
A collection of works selected from our web-site categories Contemporary Art and Contemporary Art Under $1000
illustrated Jeff Ferris Between Sadness and Joy
Gallery hours: Tues - Fri 11- 5 pm,
Sat & Sun 12 - 5 pm during the exhibition
Among the important works still available are a terrific drawing by George Lambert of his 16 year old son Maurice wearing boxing gloves - Maurice went on to become a famous English sculptor. Another family portrait is the woodcut by Ethel Spowers whose niece Cora was the model for After Dark 1927 which is inscribed as an invitation.
There are two, almost life-size National Gallery School model drawings by Jean Sutherland.
Among the Maritime works in our exhibition are Frederick Garling's depiction of the Schooner Eclipse, which was involved in...
View Exhibition about Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings
The gallery is open Tuesday and Thursdays, 10-5 pm, and intermittently at other times while we prepare our next exhibition which will be Early Australian Watercolour and Drawings.
Contact Bridget on 0419 306593 or email the gallery for an appointment at other times.
100 framed works priced under $2,000
This exhibition opens on Thursday 3rd December from 5.30pm
Until 23rd December 2020
When I was a child my contented father showed me the mystery of painting with water-colors. It was revelatory the way in which he swished the red sable Windsor and Newton purest camel-hair or red sable brushes into a freshly rinsed Pura milk bottle and diluted my holiest colors such as Veridian Green and Alizaron Crimson and the most remarkable one of the whole spectrum - French Ultra Marine.
I sat so peacefully with him wherever I went, which was everywhere there was to go in Whittlesea, and I, at ten years of age would watch him blend in the...
"... At the end of the Soviet system the professional artists were given ownership of their apartments, and those with studios got them as well, and although they no longer had the State support, they retained the studio contents ...however, their work was completely out of fashion. The lifeline was interest from abroad. The studios were full of preparatory sketches. These immediate impressions of life by these highly trained artists were a revelation. They were certainly the basis of the interest I have maintained over the last twenty eight years of buying them." extract from "Art in Russia", John Barkes, London
I visited Mary recently and was rewarded with the opportunity to look through a box of drawings I hadn't seen before. Delighted, It took me an hour to select a collection to take away. Here they are.
25 unframed watercolours and drawings from between 1971-2015 depicting Melbourne life as observed by Mary Hammond while shopping in Richmond, Northcote or Fairfield and while watching the local golfers.
Bridget McDonnell 2020
Continuing our theme of the Small Wall, here is a collection of pictures by our contemporary artists. Included are new works by Jan Senbergs, Glenda Fell Jones, Kevin Foley and Peter Brown and some we found hidden away by Peter Trusler, Nick Botting, Lucy Boyd and Mary Hammond. Also some favourites by Jeff Ferris, Celia Perceval, Barry Dickins, Don Heron and John Gollings.
After watching a Masterclass by American interior decorator, Kelly Wearstler, we were inspired to put together a wall of small pictures. We have at least 300 in stock ....
In this selection there are 26 paintings, watercolours, drawings and etchings - a mosaic of colour, texture and subject. All favourites of ours. If you don't want a whole collection of pictures, each of these would be just as happy on its own small wall.
View Exhibition about Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings 2012
Finely Observed, beautifully painted records of the lives of Russian artists
View Exhibition about Post-War Russian Realist Paintings 2012
An exhibition of paintings and oil sketches from Russia in association with John Barkes, London
Including works by; Faizrakhman Aminov, Sergei Baikov, Saniya Bakhtiyariva, Vladimir Damarad, Anatoli Ivasenko, Evgeni Kazmin, Valentina Kharaborina, A. M. Kor, Irena Kovaleva, Georgi Kovenchuk, Valeria Larina, Girsu Li, Nikolai Lyadovski, Konstantin Molteninov, Margarita Ruban, Vasili Rudnev, Valentina Savelieva, Petr Smukrovich, Elena Tabakova, Nikita Tsytsin, Anatoli Vasiliev, Edvard Vasiliev, Vladimir Yarkin, Boris Zaozerski
View Exhibition about Paintings from St Petersburg, Siberia and the Crimea 2008
Fiftly paintings and oil sketches direct from the atists' studios in St. Petersburg
View Exhibition about Four Russian Women Artists September 1999
