Journal
- Containers:
- Box 17
- Component identifier:
- File 53
- Content Summary:
- Description of flight to Broome, views of landscape and thoughts on aboriginal art. Trips to Melbourne to present Painters and Sculptures medal to James Gleeson and for a NGV dinner; and to Sydney for dinners, opera and exhibitions. Working on ceramics with Lino Alvarez in Hill End. Visit to Canberra for launch of last volume of Donald Friend's diary. Trip to Cape York and the Torres Strait, response to landscape and people. Working with lithographer Fred Genis and on a new series Childhood by the Sea. Reflections on: being at Deia and Barcelona market; Coburn, Klippel, De Koonig, Leonard French, John McDonald, Margaret Preston, Gary Shead, water colours, abstraction and aging and memory. Friendship with Reg Livermore. Photographs including of Olsen, his wife Katherine, Shead, Storrier, Juniper and Olsen with Gough Whitlam. Sketches including of: calamari, fish, Godfrey Miller, James Gleeson, wine tasting, Janus faced, self portrait, art opening, Jeffrey Smart, frog, cats, birds, Leonard French, Brett Whiteley and poet Constantine Cavafy. Award of Order of Australia.
- Subjects:
- Arts
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2172069).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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