RICHARD BROWNE A focus exhibition

30 June - 12 August 2012

A focus exhibition of seven works by Richard Browne, including two recent acquisitions to the Newcastle Art Gallery collection. Richard Browne (1776-1824) was an Irish born artist who lived in Newcastle from 1811-1817. The watercolours in this focus exhibition portray the Indigenous people from the Hunter Region and Sydney. The Newcastle collection works are exhibited in conjunction with holdings from private collections in Australia. Browne’s watercolours are an important part of the growing colonial works on paper in the Newcastle Art Gallery collection

Adults
NAIDOC week Exhibition talk
Saturday 7 July
11.00am
Join an Indigenous academic and Richard Neville, Mitchell Librarian, State Library of NSW as they discuss the convict artist Richard Browne and his subject “Coola benn, Native Chief of Ashe Island”

Guided tours
11.00am – 12.00pm
Saturdays and Sundays
Free

Art Gallery Society
Coffee with art
10.30am – 12.00 noon
Wednesday 4 July
Businessman Kerry Stokes has an extensive collection of art. Erica Persak, Executive Administrator of the collection will talk about it, including works by artist Richard Browne from the Stokes collection.
$10 members, $15 non-members
payable at the door
RSVP essential 4974 5123 or gallerysociety@ncc.nsw.gov.au

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*Art Gallery 02 4974 5114
**Audience Programs 02 4974 5112}

^{Full captions
Left: Richard Browne Coola-benn, Native Chief of Ashe Island Hunters River, New South Wales 1820
watercolour and bodycolour on paper, 47.0 x 36.0 cm
Purchased with assistance from Robert and Lindy Henderson, Newcastle Art Gallery Society,
Newcastle Art Gallery Foundation and the community 2010
Newcastle Art Gallery collection}

^{Right: Richard Browne Cobbawn Wogi, Native Chief of Ashe Island Hunters River New South Wales 1820
watercolour heightened with bodycolour, 33.0 x 27.0 cm
Private collection, Melbourne}