Hugh Ramsay b. 25 May 1877

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Hugh Ramsay was one of the many Australian artists who travelled to Europe to enhance their artistic training, producing a remarkable number of works in Australia and abroad between 1894 and 1906, primarily portraits.
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exhibited at
The Nude in 20th Century Australian Art
Date
18 May 2013 - 20 October 2013
Place
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Royal Park, Launceston, TAS
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian portraits 1880–1960
Date
29 January 2011 - 27 March 2011
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (and touring)
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/content/australian-portraits-1880%E2%80%931960
exhibited at
Public Lounge
Date
14 August 2010 - 26 September 2010
Place
Shepparton Art Museum, 70 Welsford St, Shepparton, Vic, 3630, Australia
Description

A display of works from the Shepparton Art Gallery collection with selected loans.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.sheppartonartmuseum.com.au/pastexhibitions.asp?y=2010
exhibited at
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels
Date
6 April 2005 - 24 July 2005
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
From Life: Works by Early Generations of Students at the National Gallery Art School
Date
28 October 2004 - 13 November 2004
Place
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria
Description

This exhibition provided insight into student life at the National Gallery Art School, Melbourne, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most of the works in the exhibition entered the collection of the Gallery School, now the Victorian College of the Arts, when they were first painted or drawn.

Type
Exhibition
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The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires
Date
9 July 2004 - 12 September 2004
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Travelling exhibition that was first displayed at the National Gallery of Australia (12 Mar 2004–13 Jun 2004). The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires showcases the broad range of art created by artists working and exhibiting in London during the years 1900 to 1914.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Edwardians/Default.cfm?MnuID=1
exhibited at
Hugh Ramsay: the Wicking Collection
Date
22 October 2003 - 14 December 2003
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

The Wicking Collection comprises an intimate group of paintings and drawings by Hugh Ramsay (1877–1906). It was John Wicking’s family’s desire that the collection be publicly displayed prior to its dispersal to various venues in Victoria, Tasmania and Canberra.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/fromyear/2003/toyear/2014/exhib-date/2003-10-22/exhib/hugh-ramsay-the-wicking-collection
exhibited at
Bodyline
Date
3 February 2001 - 8 April 2001
Place
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection
Date
13 December 1997 - 15 March 1998
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Hugh Ramsay, 1877-1906
Date
1992
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fifteen decades of Australian painting
Date
10 April 1981 - 24 May 1981
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary
Date
17 March 1962 - 31 March 1962
Place
National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games
Date
18 November 1956 - 15 December 1956
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
A Retrospective Exhibition of Australian Painting
Date
1953
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Travelling Exhibition of Australian Art
Date
29 May 1951 - 3 June 1951
Place
Peacock Memorial Hall, Camperdown, VIC
Description

A travelling exhibition of works of Australian painters, sponsored by the Council of Adult Education and the National Gallery of Victoria. On display in Camperdown 29 May – 3 June 1951 in the Peacock Memorial Hall, Church Street. The exhibition comprises 40 works by noted Australian painters.

Website
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/28330425
exhibited at
Jubilee Exhibition of Australian Art
Date
1951
Description

Toured the major State Galleries

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
100 years of Australian painting (1948)
Date
19 April 1948 - 17 May 1948
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
City of South Melbourne Arts Festival Exhibition
Date
May 1946
Place
South Melbourne, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MAIN&reset_config=true&docId=SLV_VOYAGER1203480
exhibited at
Hugh Ramsay Loan Exhibition
Date
16 March 1943 - 18 April 1943
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/107356
exhibited at
150 Years of Australian Art
Date
27 January 1938 - 25 April 1938
Place
National Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Centenary Art Exhibition, 1934
Date
1934
Place
Commonwealth Bank Chambers, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MAIN&reset_config=true&docId=SLV_VOYAGER1202435
exhibited at
British Empire Exhibition,
Date
23 April 1924 - October 1925
Place
Wembley, London, England, UK
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Australian Art
Date
6 October 1923 - 3 November 1923
Place
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, England, UK
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Australian Art, 1923
Date
June 1923
Place
Education Department Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Art Society: Pictures by Hugh Ramsay
Date
c.February 1919
Place
The Art Society, Hobart, TAS
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12376640
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See alsos [<ExternalResource: Patricia Gourlay, “Two portraits re-examined”, _Art and Australia_, 4, no. 3, 1966, pp. 232-33.>, <ExternalResource: Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000.>, <ExternalResource: Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953.>, <ExternalResource: Anne Gray, The Cambridge companion to Australian Art, 'Australian artists within a wider world 1900-1930', pg. 84-96, Port Melbourne, 2011.>, <ExternalResource: National Portrait Gallery: Hugh Ramsay, 'Letters from Paris' (two minute online video).>, <ExternalResource: Anne Gray, Australian portraits 1880–1960, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2010.>, <ExternalResource: Andrew Sayers AM, 'Velasquez Touch', Portrait, 11, 2004.>, <ExternalResource: Keith Finlay, “Art in Hidden Places”, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Wednesday 12 April 1978, p. 20.>, <ExternalResource: State Library of Victoria, Hugh Ramsay, Australian Art and Artists file.>, <ExternalResource: Albumen silver photograph, c 1888-1910, Group of 5 men and 5 women all unidentified except for Hugh Ramsay, standing on the left, State Library of Victoria, Accession no. H35678.>, <ExternalResource: National Library of Australia, Hugh Ramsay, biographical cuttings files from Australian newspapers and journals.>, <ExternalResource: Arts & Showbiz, “The greatest Australian paintings”, The Canberra Times, Good Weekend, Sunday 8 September 1985, pp. 46-49.>, <ExternalResource: State Library of New South Wales, The sisters, Hugh Ramsay, photograph of the painting taken in July 1940 at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, digital order no. d1_22737.>, <ExternalResource: National Portrait Gallery Research Library, Canberra, Hugh Ramsay, Artist file.>, <ExternalResource: George Carlyle, 2010-2011, Hugh Ramsay >] [<ExternalResource: Patricia Gourlay, “Two portraits re-examined”, _Art and Australia_, 4, no. 3, 1966, pp. 232-33.>, <ExternalResource: Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000.>, <ExternalResource: Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953.>, <ExternalResource: Anne Gray, The Cambridge companion to Australian Art, 'Australian artists within a wider world 1900-1930', pg. 84-96, Port Melbourne, 2011.>, <ExternalResource: National Portrait Gallery: Hugh Ramsay, 'Letters from Paris' (two minute online video).>, <ExternalResource: Anne Gray, Australian portraits 1880–1960, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2010.>, <ExternalResource: Andrew Sayers AM, 'Velasquez Touch', Portrait, 11, 2004.>, <ExternalResource: Keith Finlay, “Art in Hidden Places”, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Wednesday 12 April 1978, p. 20.>, <ExternalResource: State Library of Victoria, Hugh Ramsay, Australian Art and Artists file.>, <ExternalResource: Albumen silver photograph, c 1888-1910, Group of 5 men and 5 women all unidentified except for Hugh Ramsay, standing on the left, State Library of Victoria, Accession no. H35678.>, <ExternalResource: National Library of Australia, Hugh Ramsay, biographical cuttings files from Australian newspapers and journals.>, <ExternalResource: Arts & Showbiz, “The greatest Australian paintings”, The Canberra Times, Good Weekend, Sunday 8 September 1985, pp. 46-49.>, <ExternalResource: State Library of New South Wales, The sisters, Hugh Ramsay, photograph of the painting taken in July 1940 at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, digital order no. d1_22737.>, <ExternalResource: National Portrait Gallery Research Library, Canberra, Hugh Ramsay, Artist file.>]