07182
David Mackay Harrison (1941 - )
Lauren - Reclining Edition A/P
Bronze Sculpture
Length: 550mm Width: 280mm
Height: 320mm Weight: 12kg
Signed with initials
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06242
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925)
The Esplanade, Derwent River, New Norfolk 1910
Oil on academy board
29.7 x 45.8 cm
Signed lower right
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At a Distance by Ken Johnson
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07053
John Glover (1767 - 1849)
Mill on the Tiber(After Claude) c. 1840
Oil on canvas
76 x 114 cm
Unsigned
This previously unrecorded painting would appear to be the companion picture to the Tasmanian version of Landscape with Piping Shepherd, a free, ‘from memory’ copy of Glover’s other Claude, The Mill on the Tiber.
The rediscovery of this work is therefore a matter of considerable art-historical interest.
Like many of Glover’s oils, the work was cleaned and relined early last century, resulting in the loss of the artist’s delicate, translucent glazes in some areas.
Nevertheless, it is clearly from the artist’s hand and from his Australian years. To begin with, it is painted on a canvas measuring 76 x 114cm (2ft 6in x 3ft 9in), his ’standard size’ in Tasmania. The bright blue sky with its separate layers of cirrus and cumulus clouds is characteristic of the later Glover, as is the dappled sun and blue of the distant hills.
The sinuous curves of the central tree, the ’split-brush’ foliage, and the low light touching the edges of leaves are all typical elements of Glover’s vocabulary of landscape forms.
Furthermore, the treatment of the empty foreground, with its touches of russet and mossy green is strongly reminiscent of that in two late views of Tivoli.
Dr David Hansen
Curator, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
(Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia, 2003)
05215
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925)
(Man O’War accompanied by Yacht)
Oil on canvas
45.8 x 72 cm
Signed lower left
03200
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925)
“Barn Bluff”
Oil on academy board
21.5 x 33.7 cm (oval)
Signed lower left
06208
Haughton Forrest (1826 - 1925)
“Russell Falls” c. 1890
Oil on canvas
108 x 83 cm
Signed lower left
06242
Haughton Forrest (1826-1925)
“The Esplanade, Derwent River, New Norfolk” 1910
Oil on academy board
29.7 x 45.8 cm
Signed lower right
06293
Haughton Forrest (1826 - 1925)
“Shipping Off Tasman Peninsula”
Oil on canvas
71.7 x 111.5 cm (sight)
Signed lower left
03017
David Mackay Harrison (1941 - )
Natasha - Standing Edition 24/100
Bronze Sculpture
Length: 150mm Width: 160mm
Height: 720mm Weight: 10kg
Signed with initials
Told in his own plain and unpretentious style, Nevin Hurst’s memoir of a long and occasionally turbulent life is an account of a journey from humble beginnings in rural Tasmania to leadership in the world of Australian art.
From a tough but often idyllic country childhood under the eye of a stern and unpredictable father, through a young manhood at a time when everyone had to be ready with his fists to survive, Nevin Hurst tried his hand at many trades, from trapping rabbits to excavating peat bogs to aviation, before his abiding curiosity and a driving urge to create led him to make a career doing what he loves best.
Today he presides over Hobart’s leading fine art gallery; he is a recognised authority on numerous artists and a successful painter in his own right.
With a foreword by Dr Barry Jones AO.
Errol Flynn and the Sword of Fate is now available. At more than 130 pages with more than 130 illustrations, it’s the brightest book yet published about Tasmania’s most famous son.
Read about his mysterious ancestry, his colourful parents and his mischievous youth before he embarked on a life that became a legend both on and off the screen — and a family connection with the dramatic mutiny on the Bounty.