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dc.contributor.author |
McNeil, PK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-4196
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dc.date.issued |
2013-01 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Important Australian Art from the Collection of Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy, 2013, pp. 48 - 51 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/32669
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dc.description.abstract |
2180 word essay examining 'Love Me Sailor', painted by Donald Friend at the remote settlement of Hill End near Bathurst when the artist was a youthful thirty-four. The subject matter concerns the unprecedented and never repeated jailing in 1946 of the Australian writer Robert Close for `obscene libel', in publishing his novel of the same name in 1945. The painting is a synthesis of Friend's multi-facetted early interests: landscape, figure drawing, allusion, 19th-century Australian-history, satire, contemporary life and social issues. The essay includes 8 notes and was based on primary research conducted at the National Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia, and site visit to Hill End. |
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dc.format |
Catalogue Entry |
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dc.publisher |
Bonhams |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Important Australian Art from the Collection of Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy |
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dc.title |
Donald Friend (1915-1989) 'Love Me Sailor' 1949 |
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utslib.location |
Sydney |
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utslib.for |
1203 Design Practice and Management |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice |
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utslib.copyright.status |
closed_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
false |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Sydney |
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pubs.rights-statement |
Peter McNeil was invited by the private curator John Cruthers to research and write the catalogue essay for Donald Friend’s Love Me Sailor (1949). The essay was published by Bonhams auction house (Sydney) in the catalogue Important Australian Art from the Collection of Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy, 2013. Carruthers and Bonhams took the unusual decision to commemorate the dispersal of this large single-owner collection with detailed catalogue essays akin to a museum or gallery exhibition. Eminent historians such as Howard Morphy and Wally Caruana participated. Donald Friend (1915-1989) was an Australian figurative artist. He drew extensively on the Australian built environment and Victorian design culture in order to build his compositions. Love Me Sailor was painted by Donald Friend at the remote settlement of Hill End near Bathurst when the artist was thirty-four. The subject matter concerns the unprecedented and never repeated jailing in 1946 of the Australian writer Robert Close for ‘obscene libel’, in publishing his novel of the same name in 1945. The painting is a synthesis of Friend’s multi-facetted early interests: landscape, figure drawing, allusion, 19th-century Australian-history, satire, contemporary life and social issues. In order to research the work, McNeil conducted a site visit at Hill End and conducted primary research in the National Gallery of Australia. Bathurst Regional Art Gallery acquired the work for their collection and subsequently invited McNeil to lecture on the work in October 2014. |
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