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The 2023 collection focused display ‘Plenty’ at the Queensland Art Gallery’s International Art Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries (7-9) is based on two groups of historical international paintings drawn from the Gallery’s Collection. Perhaps unexpectedly, these apparently gentle paintings can be traced to Australia’s early colonial period and the violent settler frontier.
Two gifts are central. First, the Gallery’s founding bequest, made in 1892, from British settler the Hon. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior MLC, of 11 Flemish and Dutch still-life paintings. These treasured works were offered to the new state of Queensland on the condition that a public gallery be created, so that they might be enjoyed by the wider community. And second, more than 70 years later, the 1964 gift of Major Clement Rolfe Ingleby in memory of his mother, Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe, comprising 87 watercolours she painted while visiting family in Australia in 1883–84.
DELVE DEEPER: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/plenty-family-stories/
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2023
#QAGOMA
The 2023 collection focused display ‘Plenty’ at the Queensland Art Gallery’s International Art Collection, Philip Bacon Galleries (7-9) is based on two groups of historical international paintings drawn from the Gallery’s Collection. Perhaps unexpectedly, these apparently gentle paintings can be traced to Australia’s early colonial period and the violent settler frontier.
Two gifts are central. First, the Gallery’s founding bequest, made in 1892, from British settler the Hon. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior MLC, of 11 Flemish and Dutch still-life paintings. These treasured works were offered to the new state of Queensland on the condition that a public gallery be created, so that they might be enjoyed by the wider community. And second, more than 70 years later, the 1964 gift of Major Clement Rolfe Ingleby in memory of his mother, Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe, comprising 87 watercolours she painted while visiting family in Australia in 1883–84.
DELVE DEEPER: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/plenty-family-stories/
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2023
#QAGOMA
