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Lionel Lindsay’s Love of Literature
From: | Wednesday 13 November 2024 |
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To: | Sunday 27 March 2016 |
Time: | 10:00am - 04:00pm Wednesday 13 November 2024 |
Location: | Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, 531 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, QLD 4350 Australia |
Sir Lionel Lindsay’s artistic career was inconceivable without literature. He read Scott and Dumas before he was twelve. Kipling helped inspire him to become an artist in his teens. In his 20s, ‘my constant reading of Rabelais, Shakespeare, Theocritus, Boccaccio, Petronius, Swinburne, Rossetti and Dickens’ fed his vision. Without Mérimée’s Carmen, Lindsay’s acclaimed prints of Spain would not exist. He illustrated Baudelaire’s Femmes damnées and translated Huysmans’ Le Hareng. He illustrated ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Henry Lawson and Steele Rudd – for art historian Bernard Smith, ‘he captured the ethos of the “Australian legend” better perhaps than any other artist.’ He read Cervantes in the origin al Spanish and has been called the Don Quixote of Australian Art. After his death, his brother Daryl sorted out his studio and found ‘books on every subject under the sun’.
Image credit: Lionel LINDSAY 1874-1961 / Femmes damnées [detail] 1909 / etching and aquatint / 8.4 x 26.7 cm / Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection 306, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.
Opening hours: Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm Sun 1pm - 4pm Closed Mondays and public holidays
* Please note the Gallery's opening hours on Sundays are 1pm until 4pm
531 Ruthven Street
Toowoomba
QLD
4350
Australia
Entry charges - Adult | Free |
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Entry charges - Child | Free |
Entry charges - Concession | Free |
Entry charges - Family | Free |
Entry charges - Group | Free |
Contact phone | 07 4688 6652 |
Booking information | * Please note the Gallery's opening hours on Sundays are 1pm until 4pm |
Event website | www.tr.qld.gov.au/trag |
Is food and drink available? | No |
Are toilets available? | Yes |
Is there disabled access? | Yes |