Collection: Penrith Gallery

This summary catalouge constitutes a response to many enquiries, both here and overseas, about the holdings of old master paintings in the public collections of Australia and new Zealand.

The classic study of the European interpretation of the Pacific in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, uses the work of artists on scientific voyages from Cook to Dumont d'Urville, relates their work to the science and prevailing ideas of the era.

Gauguin said 'in art there are only revolutionists or plagiarists.' In the dedication Rutter wrote: 'To Rebels of either sex all the world over who in any way are fighting for freedom of any kind I dedicate this study of their painter comrades'.

The origins of Expressionism is detailed, as well as the art form in Dresden, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, the Rhineland and after World War I. Expressionism originated in Germany as a reaction to Impressionism.

An overview of the art of the Expressionists it examines the work of Kirchner, Beckmann, Kokoscha, Nolde, Pechstein and others, and the Brucke and Blaue Reiter movements. Includes short biographies of over one hundred painters.

Introductory essay by Dorothy Vandersteel.

Based on exhibitions held for the 6th Biennale of Sydney, in 1986 at the Australian Centre for Photography, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest - Manly Art Gallery and Museum, & S. H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre.

French painting: the revolutionary decades is an exhibition of paintings and supporting sketches from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries selected from the collections of the Musee du Louvre and other French museums.

Presents photographs by William Yang of the Sydney gay scene between the mid 1970's and 1990 focusing on the Sleaze Ball and Mardi Gras.

Frozen Gestures was a retrospective exhibition of the artist Peter Upward, who is often described as the purest of Australia`s abstractionists. It focuses on more than 50 of his works including paintings, screen prints and posters.