Title

John Glover and the colonial picturesque.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Details

27 November 2003

Publication date

27 November 2003

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

On the 28th November 2003 the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of the work of the Anglo-Australian painter John Glover (1767-1849).

John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque will be the most significant touring Australian art exhibition of 2004 and indeed the largest art exhibition ever produced by the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.
 
The exhibition will be part of the TMAG’s Bicentenary of Tasmania Program.

Although widely recognised as the father of Australian landscape painting, Glover’s works are concentrated in a relatively few public collections, and this will be the first time in 25 years that a significant body of his work has been presented to the public.

The exhibition John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque will contain over 100 works – paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sketchbooks – borrowed from 15 museums, galleries, and libraries and from 13 private and corporate collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. (PR)

The exhibition includes a selection of Glover’s prints, both autographic and reproductive. The catalogue contains an essay by Roger Butler, Glover’s prints and printmaking.  

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