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The Peter Tyndall and Robert MacPherson Correspondence Archive
1979–2014, donated to the QAGOMA Research Library by Tyndall,
is the result of 35 years of exchange between two celebrated
Australian artists. The Archive comprises envelopes of newspaper
and magazine pages related to frogs, axes and other items of
shared interest, all annotated by MacPherson. A small sample
of the 13 000-object Archive was displayed in GOMA’s Foyer
Cabinet during ‘Robert MacPherson: The Painter’s Reach.’
THE FOUNDING
YEARS 1895–1915
A COLLECTION FOR QUEENSLAND
28 MARCH – 14 JUNE 2015
QAG
CURATOR / DAVID BURNETT, CURATOR,
INTERNATIONAL ART AND MICHAEL HAWKER,
ASSOCIATE CURATOR, AUSTRALIAN ART
Marking the 120th anniversary of the founding of the
Queensland National Art Gallery, as it was first known,
this display brought together Collection favourites
acquired in the Gallery’s first 20 years.
QAGOMA Foundation President Tim
Fairfax,
ac
,
at the Foundation Viewing
of ‘The Founding Years’ / March 2015 /
Photograph: Joe Ruckli
See page 47 for the conservation
work that allowed the exhibition
of a never-before displayed
painting in ‘The Founding Years’
CLOCKWISE FROMTOP /
Artist Peter Tyndall in conversation
during the opening weekend / July
2015 / Photograph: Brad Wagner
The Archive arrives at GOMA
A selection of items sent by Robert
MacPherson to Peter Tyndall /
Collection: QAGOMA Research
Library / ©The artists
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REVIEW
2015
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