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Australian painting of the 70s and 80s

Also toured to Melbourne and Brisbane

Touring exhibition curated by National Gallery Director, Ron Radford.

Organised by Ian Potter Centre. Australia’s most inventive and influential artists of the twentieth century. Although Nolan has been the subject of three major retrospective exhibitions, there have been few opportunities to examine in detail the significance of his images of the Australian outback.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
IPNGV website; State Library of Victoria catalogue; http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whatson/whatson_exhibitions.jsp?timescale=2&locationID=3 (05/05/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sidney Nolan: desert and drought. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003
160p: ill ; 29cm

A significant group of works on paper from the Collection reveals how Nolan utilised the series format as a narrative device to investigate landscape as a site for the production of myth and history.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Lawrence Wilson Gallery exhibition program;

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
The plains: Wimmera and the imaging of Australian landscape: Philip Hunter and Sidney Nolan. [Melbourne, Vic]: Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, 2001
ISBN 0734021542

An NGV touring exhibition to Bendigo Art Gallery; Bennalla Art Gallery; The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre; Horsham Regional Gallery; Geelong Art Gallery; Museum of Modern Art at Heide; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Funded by Tattersall’s and Arts Victoria.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sidney Nolan’s Wimmera: from Wail to Ballarat. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, c1999
12 p : col ill ; 21 × 30 cm

Toured by the Bundanon Trust. This exhibition spanned 60 years of Arthur Boyd’s career – from his first oil painting in 1933, spanning 4 generations of the Boyd family, the 81 works in this exhibition also included work by the friends of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester, Charles Blackman, Leonard French, Brett Whiteley, John Perceval and John Olsen.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Chaulker, David (ed), Arthur Boyd: family and friends. West Cambewarra, NSW: Bundanon Trust, 1997.
ISBN 064634353X

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Reeder, Warwick and Sayers, Andrew, The Ned Kelly paintings: Nolan at Heide 1946-47. Bulleen, Vic: Museum of Modern Art at Heide, c1997
ISBN 0947104380

This exhibition was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, being part of the gallery’s ongoing commitment to taking the art of Australia overseas.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGA annual report

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; State Library of Victoria

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sir Sidney Nolan: a retrospective celebrating his 75th birthday. Leeds, England: Harewood Terrace Gallery, [1992]
11 p : col il ; 21 cm

An NGA touring exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
ORG exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sayers, Andrew, Sidney Nolan drawings: a souvenir book of the exhibition at the Australian National Gallery. Canberra: Australian national Gallery, 1989.
63p: b&w and col ill

A retrospective of 200 works by Nolan, celebrating his 70th birthday. Organised by the NGV.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Clark, Jane, Sidney Nolan: landscapes and legends: a retrospective 1937-1987. Melbourne : Cambridge University Press [with International Cultural Corporation of Australia], 1987
ISBN 0521353017

Also toured to Sydney, Perth and Adelaide

Organised by the NGV; managed by the International Cultural Corporation of Australia. A retrospective exhibition of almost 200 of Sir Sidney Nolan’s most famous and popular paintings, as well as many rarely exhibited before. Included are works from the Ned Kelly series, Burke and Wills, this history of Mr Eliza Fraser, Leda and the Swan, Antarctic exploration, north-west mine works and the Gallipoli campaign.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Clark, Jane, Sidney Nolan: landscapes and legends: a retrospective 1937-1987. Melbourne : Cambridge University Press [with International Cultural Corporation of Australia], 1987
ISBN 0521353017

Toured by the NGVA, a retrospective exhibition of almost 200 of Sir Sidney Nolan’s most famous and popular paintings, as well as many rarely exhibited before.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; AGWA annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Clark, Jane, Sidney Nolan: landscapes and legends: a retrospective 1937-1987. Melbourne : Cambridge University Press [with International Cultural Corporation of Australia], 1987
ISBN 0521353017

Organised by NGV, Neww Limited; Clemenger Australia; Qantas Airways Ltd; Over 150 works drawn from public and private collections throughout Australia and from Great Britain.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGSA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Clark, Jane, Sidney Nolan: landscapes and legends: a retrospective 1937-1987. Melbourne : Cambridge University Press [with International Cultural Corporation of Australia], 1987
ISBN 0521353017

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive