Town, Country, Shore & Sea
British Drawings and Watercolours from Anthony Van Dyck to Paul Nash
NGV International
14 Dec 82 – 23 Jan 83
This fine touring exhibition comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It is a representative exhibition which broadly traces the development of watercolour painting in Britain. Encompassing three centuries of British Art from some of the nation’s greatest artists in the medium of watercolour, this is the most important exhibition of British drawings and watercolours ever seen in Australia. Artists exhibited include Anthony Van Dyck, Francis Place, Thomas Wyck, Samuel Buck, George Lambert, Alexander Cozens, Thomas Gainsborough, Robert Adam, Joseph Wright of Derby, J.W Turner, John Constable, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, Henry Tonks and Paul Nash.
Sourced from: Adapted from: Raoul Mellish, ‘Forward’ Town, Country and Sea: British Drawings and Watercolours from Anthony van Dyck to Paul Nash, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982
Touring dates and venues
Queensland Art Gallery
21 Jun – 18 Jul 82
Musuems and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
28 Jul – 22 Aug 82
Art Gallery of Western Australia
2–26 Sep 82
Art Gallery of New South Wales
6–31 Oct 82
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
9 Nov – 5 Dec 82
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
15 Feb – 10 Apr 83