Contemporary Art Society. First Australia-Wide Graphic Art Exhibition

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Title

Contemporary Art Society. First Australia-Wide Graphic Art Exhibition

Venues

David Jones' Art Gallery [Elizabeth St]. (20 June 1960 – 1 July 1960)

Date

(1960)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (NSW). Prints.

Documentation

?pp. Introduction by [President] Weaver Hawkins.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

"This is the first Exhibition of Graphic Art which has been open to all artists resident anywhere in Australia. It has been sponsored and organised by the Contemporary Art Society of NSW; having been proposed by the Lithuanian Society of Sydney, which has donated the sum of fifty pounds for a drawing in black-and-white, awarded by Professor Maximilian Feuerring. Another prize of one hundred pounds has been donated by Dr. Ambroza for an original artist's print, awarded by Mr. Alistair Morrison. ..." (Introduction).