Title
Portrait of Fred Williams
1979-1980
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1979-1980
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 142.0 x 163.0 cm stretcher; 155.7 x 176.6 x 5.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, black oil "John Brack 1979/80".
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 209.1980
- Copyright
- © Helen Brack
- Artist information
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John Brack
Works in the collection
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About
John Brack’s portrait of friend and landscape painting innovator, Fred Williams, is a serious and stark one that displays little of the keen and biting wit for which Brack is best known.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986
The Real Thing, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 08 Dec 1997–22 Feb 1998
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
John Brack portraits (2007), National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], Canberra, 24 Aug 2007–18 Nov 2007
John Brack Retrospective (2009-2010), Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 24 Apr 2009–09 Aug 2009
John Brack Retrospective (2009-2010), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 02 Oct 2009–31 Jan 2010
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Bibliography
Referenced in 17 publications
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Nancy Borlase, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'For Gymnasts, but Worth it', Sydney, 23 Aug 1980, page unknown (illus.).
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Australian 20th Century Art', pg. 71-89, Sydney, 1984, 87 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'John Brack / Jeffrey Smart', pg. 116-127, Sydney, 2002, 120 (colour illus.), 121, 124, 142, 147.
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Deborah Edwards, Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Introduction', pg. 8-14, Sydney, 1986, 48 (illus.). cat.no. 48
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Juliana Engberg (Curator), The Real Thing, Australia, 1997, 84.
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Kristy Grant, John Brack, 'Human nature: the art of John Brack', pg. 87-132, Melbourne, 2009, 107, 108,184 (colour illus.), 225.
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Sasha Grishin AM, The art of John Brack - Volume 1, Australia, 1990, 148, 151 (colour illus.). plate no. 44
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Sasha Grishin AM, The art of John Brack - Volume 2, Australia, 1990, 34. cat.no. 258
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Sasha Grishin, Portraits by John Brack, 'John Brack and the celebral portrait', pg. 3-14, Parkes, 2007, 12, 61, 20, 13 (colour illus.).
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Robert Lindsay, John Brack: a retrospective exhibition, 'The figure in the carpet: some literary and visual sources in the work of John Brack', pg. 11-88, Melbourne, 1987, 16, 17, 132, 133, 141. cat.no. 102
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 81 (colour illus.).
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Sandra McGrath, The Australian, 'Points, Paint and Praxiteles', Sydney, 24 Aug 1980, page unknown (illus.).
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Barry Pearce, Look, 'Parallel Visions: a study of fellow spirits in Australian art', pg. 8-9, Melbourne, Feb 2002, 8 (colour illus.), 9.
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Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian', pg. 13-35, Sydney, 1988, 33.
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Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The enduring image', pg. 265-266, Sydney, 2000, 270 (colour illus.), 300.
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Barry Pearce, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Australian Art', pg. 5-26, Sydney, 1981, 6, 11 (illus.). cat.no. 7
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Judith White, art lovers: the story of the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1953-2013, 'Chapter 4: Into the Capon era 1979-1988', pp. 85-110, Sydney, 2013, 101.
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