Douglas Annand: The art of life.

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Title

Douglas Annand: The art of life.

Collective title

A National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (6 October 2001 – 28 January 2002)

Heide Museum of Modern Art. (17 February 2003 – 9 June 2003)

Queensland Art Gallery [2]. (12 July 2003 – 31 August 2003)

Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery (13 September 2003 – 16 November 2003)

Australian National Maratime Museum (13 March 2004 – 9 May 2004)

Date

(2001 – 2004)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia. Drawings, Watercolours, Prints, Decorative/Design arts.

Curator

Anne McDonald

Documentation

Catalogue

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

This exhibition is the first to recognise Douglas Annand's enormous contribution to the development of Australian modernism. An artist and designer of great ability and style, Annand was a contemporary and friend of Sydney Ure-Smith, Gordon Andrews, Max Dupain and Russell Drysdale, and was once described as the most brilliant and versatile eclectic artist in this country. From the early 1930s Annand set new standards for Australian designers with images that were international in their philosophy, yet 'typically Australian' and 'typically Annand'. [Gallery media, 2001].