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A large exhibition of work drawn from the extensive gift of the artist, including work from the Ern Malley series up to the 1970s.

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

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sidney Nolan : the city and the plain. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1983
ISBN 0724101004

Organised by the Australian Galleries Directors Council and toured to: Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Canberra; Mornington Peninsular Arts Gallery; Geelong Art Gallery; Benalla Art Gallery; Wollongong City Art Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston; Devonport Gallery & Arts Centre, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart; Ararat Art Gallery. Presented by the Australian Gallery Directors Council, with the assistance of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. A retrospective exhibition of 139 drawings dating from 1937 to 1977.

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sidney Nolan : works on paper retrospective. Melbourne, Vic., : Australian Gallery Directors Council, c1980.
ISBN 0642903484

Paintings by Sidney Nolan and Aboriginal portraits by Igor Horenko from the MAGNT permanent collection.

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

Also toured to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth

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

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

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Sidney Nolan: notes for Oedipus. London: Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd, 1975
ISBN 0900955171

An exhibition of 43 paintings, drawings and photomontages that centred around the poems by Ern Malley published in 1943. Nearly all works were subsequently given to the Gallery by the artist.

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

Exhibition Catalogue:
Lynn, Elwyn, Sidney Nolan: Ern Malley and paradise garden. [Adelaide, SA: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1974?]
See also: Paradise garden: paintings, drawings and poems / Sidney Nolan, with an introduction by Robert Melville. London: R Alistair McAlpine, 1971
109, [2] p: ill col plates ; 32 cm

“The Australian Landscape” was a national touring exhibition organised by the Australian Gallery Directors’ Council in 1972. The organising gallery was the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the curators were Daniel Thomas (Art Gallery of New South Wales) Ian North (Art Gallery of South Australia) and Frances McCarthy [later Lindsay] (National Gallery of Victoria). Generous funding from the Peter Stuyvesant foundation enabled the curators to travel the country together in order to make considered judgements.
The exhibition opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia on 3 March 1972, and toured to the Western Australian Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Australian National Gallery (temporary premises), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle City Art Gallery, and the Queensland Art Gallery.
The catalogue introduction claims that the exhibition comprised of 'fifty-five of the best Australian landscapes ever executed’. It was characterised by a breadth of vision, with works from every state – including regional galleries and private collections. It is distinguished by having a greater emphasis on colonial works than previous exhibitions, and elevating the reputation of Eugene Von Guerard and John Glover.
There were only two works by women – Grace Cossington Smith and Margaret Preston– and none by any Aboriginal artist.

Also toured to Melbourne and Perth

Also toured to Sydney