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'''Velasquez Gallery,''' also known as Velasquez Gallery at Tye’s, and later Tye's Art Gallery was a [[Melbourne]] art gallery that showed contemporary traditional, and later, modernist Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as indigenous art. It operated from 1940 and closed in the 1960s.
'''Velasquez Gallery,''' also known as Velasquez Gallery at Tye’s, and later Tye's Art Gallery was a [[Melbourne]] art gallery that showed contemporary traditional, and later, modernist Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as Australian indigenous art. It operated from 1940 and closed in the 1960s.


== History ==
== History ==
The Velasquez Gallery, located in the basement at the rear of Tye's Furniture Building, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne<ref>{{Citation | author1=Akehurst, Christopher | title=Books and mateship at the bread and cheese club | journal=Quadrant | publication-date=2019-06 | volume=63 | issue=6 | pages=93-96 | issn=0033-5002}}</ref> was one of the few places to exhibit in 1940s Melbourne.<ref name=":0">Wendy Donald-Bradley (1991) Alannah Coleman: The Woman and her Role in Promoting Australian Art and Artists in the United Kingdom 1950–1990, M.A. thesis, Melbourne: Victoria College, 1991</ref> The gallery opened on June 4 1940 with an exhibition of work by Australian proponent of [[Tonalism]], [[Max Meldrum]], and “autumn leaves from Mr. Tye’s Macedon garden decorated the gallery.”<ref>The Age Thursday 13 Jun 1940, p.3</ref><ref>The Age, Friday 24 May 1940, p.4</ref>  
The Velasquez Gallery, located in the basement at the rear of Tye's Furniture Building, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne<ref>{{Citation | author1=Akehurst, Christopher | title=Books and mateship at the bread and cheese club | journal=Quadrant | publication-date=2019-06 | volume=63 | issue=6 | pages=93-96 | issn=0033-5002}}</ref> was one of the few places to exhibit in 1940s Melbourne.<ref name=":0">Wendy Donald-Bradley (1991) Alannah Coleman: The Woman and her Role in Promoting Australian Art and Artists in the United Kingdom 1950–1990, M.A. thesis, Melbourne: Victoria College, 1991</ref> The gallery opened on June 4 1940 with an exhibition of work by Australian proponent of [[Tonalism]], [[Max Meldrum]], and “autumn leaves from Mr. Tye’s Macedon garden decorated the gallery.”<ref>The Age Thursday 13 Jun 1940, p.3</ref><ref>The Age, Friday 24 May 1940, p.4</ref>  


The proprietors were painter/printmaker, critic and art teacher Stephanie Taylor (1899–1974)<ref>http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/981/</ref><ref>The Age, Thursday 24 Jul 1947, p.2</ref>  and art collector George Page-Cooper (c.1895-1967).<ref>http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/5035/</ref> The gallery showed contemporary traditional, and later, Modern Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as indigenous art.
The proprietors were painter/printmaker, critic and art teacher [[Stephanie Taylor (Australian artist)|Stephanie Taylor]] (1899–1974)<ref>http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/981/</ref><ref>The Age, Thursday 24 Jul 1947, p.2</ref>  and art collector George Page-Cooper (c.1895-1967).<ref>http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/5035/</ref> The gallery showed contemporary traditional, and later, Modern Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as indigenous art, and under the management of Taylor, women artists were given much better exposure than at other galleries.


In 1948, twenty-seven of Sidney Nolan's Kelly series paintings were shown here for the first time<ref name=":0" />
In 1948, twenty-seven of [[Sidney Nolan]]'s Kelly series paintings were shown here for the first time<ref name=":0" />


== Exhibitions: ==
== Exhibitions: ==
As ‘Velasquez Gallery’:
As ‘Velasquez Gallery’:
* 1940, 30 September - October: Paintings by Miss AME Bale, Tye's Velasquez Gallery, Melbourne
* 1940, 30 September - October: Paintings by Miss [[Alice Marian Ellen Bale|A.M.E. Bale]],
* 1940, 18-30 November: The Bread and Cheese Club's Australian Art & Literature Exhibition<ref>Malloch, H., & Bread Cheese Club. (1940). A brief history of the Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne / by Harry Malloch. Melbourne: The Club.</ref>
* 1940, 18-30 November: The Bread and Cheese Club's Australian Art & Literature Exhibition<ref>Malloch, H., & Bread Cheese Club. (1940). A brief history of the Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne / by Harry Malloch. Melbourne: The Club.</ref>
* 1941: Exhibition of paintings sculpture and pottery by Australian artists to aid the Red Cross. Velasquez Gallery.
* 1941: Exhibition of paintings sculpture and pottery by Australian artists to aid the Red Cross.
* 1941: 18 February – 3 March: Exhibition of clay sculptures on Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts: legends collected by Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. and David Uniapon<ref>Ricketts, W., & Waller, O. (1941). Exhibition of clay sculptures on Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts: Legends collected by Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. and David Uniapon. Brighton, Vic.: Middle Brighton Printery.</ref>
* 1941: 18 February – 3 March: Exhibition of clay sculptures on Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by [[William Ricketts]]: legends collected by Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. and [[David Unaipon|David Uniapon]]<ref>Ricketts, W., & Waller, O. (1941). Exhibition of clay sculptures on Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts: Legends collected by Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. and David Uniapon. Brighton, Vic.: Middle Brighton Printery.</ref>
* 1941, 9 August – 30 August: Exhibition of paintings by Edith Holmes.
* 1941, 9 August – 30 August: Exhibition of paintings by [[Edith Lilla Holmes|Edith Holmes]].
* 1943, 16 – 27 July: Adrian George Feint
* 1943, 16 – 27 July: [[Adrian Feint|Adrian George Feint]]
* 1943, 16 July – 27 July: Exhibition of the Graphic Arts
* 1943, 16 July – 27 July: Exhibition of the Graphic Arts
* 1943: 24 August – 3 September: Contemporary Art Society
* 1943: 24 August – 3 September: Contemporary Art Society
* 1943-5, 16 November 1943 – 27 July 1945: Touring Exhibition of Graphic Arts
* 1943-5, 16 November 1943 – 27 July 1945: Touring Exhibition of Graphic Arts
* 1945:: First annual exhibition, artists E. Alsop, Wallace Anderson, Clothilde Atyeo, A.M.E. Bale, E. Monette Baxter, Tom Bell, J. Bergner, Arthur Boyd, Ian Bow, Lina Bryans, Nutter Buzacott, Victor E. Cobb, Valerie Cohen, Yvonne F. Cohen, W. Coleman, Elizabeth Colquhoun, F. Lawrence Coles, Noel Counihan, Sybil Craig, Peggy Crombie, Mabel Crump, Aileen Dent, Max Dimmack, Ailsa Donaldson, Ambrose Dyson, Esme Farmer, John Farmer, Alma Figuerola, Burton Fox, Madge Freeman, W. Frater, Grace Gardiner, Ina Gregory, Nornie Gude, W.G. Gulliver, Michael Hall, John Heath, Edward Heffernan, Roy Opie, Betty Paterson, Esther Paterson, J. Perceval, A. Plante, Muriel Pornett, James Quinn, M. Rankin, Jack Sampson, Dora Serle, Bruno Simon, David Sing, Colvin L. Smith, J.T. Smith, W. Spence, N.F. Suhr, Jean P. Sutherland, Jo. Sweatman, E.W. Syme, Arnold Shore, Stephany Taylor, George H. Tichauer, Louise Thomas, Violet Teague, Francis Roy Thompson, Rollo Thomson, Albert Tucker, Kit Turner, Danila Vassilieff, J. Wentcher, Tina Wentcher, James V. Wigley, Nora Wilkie, Dora L. Wilson, Noel Wood, Marjorie Woolcock, Joan Yonge, Marguerite Mahood.
* 1945:: First annual exhibition, artists E. Alsop, Wallace Anderson, Clothilde Atyeo, [[Alice Marian Ellen Bale|A.M.E. Bale]], E. Monette Baxter, Tom Bell, [[Yosl Bergner|Josl Bergner]], [[Arthur Boyd]], Ian Bow, [[Lina Bryans]], Nutter Buzacott, Victor E. Cobb, Valerie Cohen, Yvonne F. Cohen, W. Coleman, Elizabeth Colquhoun, F. Lawrence Coles, [[Noel Counihan]], [[Sybil Craig]], [[Peggie Crombie|Peggy Crombie]], Mabel Crump, [[Aileen Dent]], Max Dimmack, Ailsa Donaldson, [[Ambrose Dyson]], Esme Farmer, John Farmer, Alma Figuerola, Burton Fox, Madge Freeman, W. Frater, Grace Gardiner, Ina Gregory, Nornie Gude, W.G. Gulliver, Michael Hall, John Heath, Edward Heffernan, Roy Opie, Betty Paterson, Esther Paterson, J. Perceval, A. Plante, Muriel Pornett, James Quinn, M. Rankin, Jack Sampson, Dora Serle, Bruno Simon, David Sing, Colvin L. Smith, J.T. Smith, W. Spence, N.F. Suhr, Jean P. Sutherland, Jo. Sweatman, E.W. Syme, Arnold Shore, Stephany Taylor, George H. Tichauer, Louise Thomas, Violet Teague, Francis Roy Thompson, Rollo Thomson, Albert Tucker, Kit Turner, Danila Vassilieff, J. Wentcher, Tina Wentcher, James V. Wigley, Nora Wilkie, Dora L. Wilson, Noel Wood, Marjorie Woolcock, Joan Yonge, Marguerite Mahood.
* 1945, 24 April to 5 May: Exhibition of Aboriginal arts & crafts
* 1945, 24 April to 5 May: Exhibition of Aboriginal arts & crafts
* 1945, 2–13 July: Contemporary Child Art to Aid Red Cross Funds, Arranged by Woman"s World, Exhibition opened by Lady Brookes at Velasquez Gallery, Tye's Building
* 1945, 2–13 July: Contemporary Child Art to Aid Red Cross Funds, Arranged by Woman"s World, Exhibition opened by Lady Brookes at Velasquez Gallery, Tye's Building
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* 1948, April: The Kelly paintings of Sidney Nolan 1946-47, Velasquez Gallery
* 1948, April: The Kelly paintings of Sidney Nolan 1946-47, Velasquez Gallery
* 1948? 7-19 June:  Elizabeth Durack paintings Velasquez Gallery , Melbourne
* 1948? 7-19 June:  Elizabeth Durack paintings Velasquez Gallery , Melbourne
By the late 1940s in publicity and in general references to it, the gallery is usually just Tye’s Gallery’:
By the late 1940s in publicity and in general references to it, the gallery is usually just 'Tye’s Gallery’:
* 1948: Loan collection of paintings from Dr. and Mrs. T.J. Kiernan, Irish Legation, Canberra, A.C.T.
* 1948: Loan collection of paintings from Dr. and Mrs. T.J. Kiernan, Irish Legation, Canberra, A.C.T.
* 1948, 26 October – 5 November: Loan exhibition of paintings of horses...to benefit Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten, Fisherman's Bend.
* 1948, 26 October – 5 November: Loan exhibition of paintings of horses...to benefit Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten, Fisherman's Bend.
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* 1954, 14 September – 25 September: Artists for Peace.
* 1954, 14 September – 25 September: Artists for Peace.


References
== References ==
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Revision as of 06:38, 21 October 2020

Velasquez Gallery, also known as Velasquez Gallery at Tye’s, and later Tye's Art Gallery was a Melbourne art gallery that showed contemporary traditional, and later, modernist Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as Australian indigenous art. It operated from 1940 and closed in the 1960s.

History

The Velasquez Gallery, located in the basement at the rear of Tye's Furniture Building, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne[1] was one of the few places to exhibit in 1940s Melbourne.[2] The gallery opened on June 4 1940 with an exhibition of work by Australian proponent of Tonalism, Max Meldrum, and “autumn leaves from Mr. Tye’s Macedon garden decorated the gallery.”[3][4]  

The proprietors were painter/printmaker, critic and art teacher Stephanie Taylor (1899–1974)[5][6]  and art collector George Page-Cooper (c.1895-1967).[7] The gallery showed contemporary traditional, and later, Modern Australian art, including some sculpture and prints, as well as indigenous art, and under the management of Taylor, women artists were given much better exposure than at other galleries.

In 1948, twenty-seven of Sidney Nolan's Kelly series paintings were shown here for the first time[2]

Exhibitions:

As ‘Velasquez Gallery’:

  • 1940, 30 September - October: Paintings by Miss A.M.E. Bale,
  • 1940, 18-30 November: The Bread and Cheese Club's Australian Art & Literature Exhibition[8]
  • 1941: Exhibition of paintings sculpture and pottery by Australian artists to aid the Red Cross.
  • 1941: 18 February – 3 March: Exhibition of clay sculptures on Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts: legends collected by Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. and David Uniapon[9]
  • 1941, 9 August – 30 August: Exhibition of paintings by Edith Holmes.
  • 1943, 16 – 27 July: Adrian George Feint
  • 1943, 16 July – 27 July: Exhibition of the Graphic Arts
  • 1943: 24 August – 3 September: Contemporary Art Society
  • 1943-5, 16 November 1943 – 27 July 1945: Touring Exhibition of Graphic Arts
  • 1945:: First annual exhibition, artists E. Alsop, Wallace Anderson, Clothilde Atyeo, A.M.E. Bale, E. Monette Baxter, Tom Bell, Josl Bergner, Arthur Boyd, Ian Bow, Lina Bryans, Nutter Buzacott, Victor E. Cobb, Valerie Cohen, Yvonne F. Cohen, W. Coleman, Elizabeth Colquhoun, F. Lawrence Coles, Noel Counihan, Sybil Craig, Peggy Crombie, Mabel Crump, Aileen Dent, Max Dimmack, Ailsa Donaldson, Ambrose Dyson, Esme Farmer, John Farmer, Alma Figuerola, Burton Fox, Madge Freeman, W. Frater, Grace Gardiner, Ina Gregory, Nornie Gude, W.G. Gulliver, Michael Hall, John Heath, Edward Heffernan, Roy Opie, Betty Paterson, Esther Paterson, J. Perceval, A. Plante, Muriel Pornett, James Quinn, M. Rankin, Jack Sampson, Dora Serle, Bruno Simon, David Sing, Colvin L. Smith, J.T. Smith, W. Spence, N.F. Suhr, Jean P. Sutherland, Jo. Sweatman, E.W. Syme, Arnold Shore, Stephany Taylor, George H. Tichauer, Louise Thomas, Violet Teague, Francis Roy Thompson, Rollo Thomson, Albert Tucker, Kit Turner, Danila Vassilieff, J. Wentcher, Tina Wentcher, James V. Wigley, Nora Wilkie, Dora L. Wilson, Noel Wood, Marjorie Woolcock, Joan Yonge, Marguerite Mahood.
  • 1945, 24 April to 5 May: Exhibition of Aboriginal arts & crafts
  • 1945, 2–13 July: Contemporary Child Art to Aid Red Cross Funds, Arranged by Woman"s World, Exhibition opened by Lady Brookes at Velasquez Gallery, Tye's Building
  • 1945, 1 March – 1 April: Exhibition of paintings by Ivan Yakovlev
  • 1945, 3 – 13 April: Australian C.E.M.A. Victorian Division, Autumn Arts Festival. First Annual Exhibition.
  • 1945, 16 – 23 May: Exhibition of works of art by well known Australian artists for the benefit of The Lord Mayor's Appeal (The Rt. Hon. Cr. Sir Thomas S. Nettlefold, K.B., O.B.E.,) for totally and permanently disabled service men and service women.
  • 1945, 16 – 27 July: Exhibition of the Graphic Arts; Bread and Cheese Club, Australian Bookplate Club.
  • 1946, 8 – 19 January: Three Tasmanian artists; Winifred Biggins, Eileen Brooker, Dorothy Stoner
  • 1946, 12 – 23 March: Exhibition by Water Colour Group
  • 1947, from 24 July: Sculpture by Arthur Fleischmann and Lyndon Dadswell, opened by Frank Thring[10]
  • 1947, September: John Middleton[11]
  • 1948, 1 May – 8 June: Edith Holmes
  • N.D.: Exhibition of graphic arts, rare books manuscripts and literary rarities under auspices of the Bread and Cheese Club
  • 1948, April: The Kelly paintings of Sidney Nolan 1946-47, Velasquez Gallery
  • 1948? 7-19 June:  Elizabeth Durack paintings Velasquez Gallery , Melbourne

By the late 1940s in publicity and in general references to it, the gallery is usually just 'Tye’s Gallery’:

  • 1948: Loan collection of paintings from Dr. and Mrs. T.J. Kiernan, Irish Legation, Canberra, A.C.T.
  • 1948, 26 October – 5 November: Loan exhibition of paintings of horses...to benefit Ada Mary A'Beckett Free Kindergarten, Fisherman's Bend.
  • 1949, from 1 October: Leonard French
  • 1950, from 1 February: British Council exhibition of prints and photographs
  • 1950, 23 May – 2 June Tenth anniversary 1940 - 1950.
  • 1952, 11 March: Spencer Jackson Historical Australasian Art Collection
  • 1952 Photographs of Yugoslavia[12]
  • 1954, 6 April – 23 April: Contemporary Art Society commemorative exhibition.
  • 1954, 14 September – 25 September: Artists for Peace.

References

  1. ^ Akehurst, Christopher (2019-06), "Books and mateship at the bread and cheese club", Quadrant, 63 (6): 93–96, ISSN 0033-5002 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)
  2. ^ a b Wendy Donald-Bradley (1991) Alannah Coleman: The Woman and her Role in Promoting Australian Art and Artists in the United Kingdom 1950–1990, M.A. thesis, Melbourne: Victoria College, 1991
  3. ^ The Age Thursday 13 Jun 1940, p.3
  4. ^ The Age, Friday 24 May 1940, p.4
  5. ^ http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/981/
  6. ^ The Age, Thursday 24 Jul 1947, p.2
  7. ^ http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/5035/
  8. ^ Malloch, H., & Bread Cheese Club. (1940). A brief history of the Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne / by Harry Malloch. Melbourne: The Club.
  9. ^ Ricketts, W., & Waller, O. (1941). Exhibition of clay sculptures on Australian Aboriginal folk-lore by William Ricketts: Legends collected by Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. and David Uniapon. Brighton, Vic.: Middle Brighton Printery.
  10. ^ The Age, Thursday 24 Jul 1947, p.2
  11. ^ The Age, Tuesday 23 Sep 1947, p.14
  12. ^ The Age Tuesday 01 Apr 1952, p.2
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