Lloyd Rees
(Australia 17 Mar 1895–02 Dec 1988)
- Title
- The road to Berry
- Place of origin
-
Gerringong →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1947
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on paperboard
- Dimensions
-
34.6 x 42.2cm board; 46.3 x 53.6 x 4.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner, brown oil "L REES [obscured by frame]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1947
- Accession number
- 7940
- Copyright
- © AGNSW
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
Rees painted 'The road to Berry' in Gerringong, on the south coast of New South Wales, looking into the distance towards the road that led to Berry. The painting came to have special significance to a number of younger artists, including John Olsen and Brett Whiteley:
"'The road to Berry' is a tiny picture I remember painting from under a copse of trees ... and I just remember a small canvas and a sort of rhythmical movement that just happened; I was always amazed at the attraction it had ... I was never able to repeat that little picture, and that's a good thing."
- Lloyd Rees 1987- Bibliography (17)
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Janet Hawley (Author), Artists in conversation, Richmond, 2012, ix (colour illus.), 99.
Kathie Sutherland (Australia) (Author), Brett Whiteley: A sensual lilne 1957-67, Victoria, 2010, 19.
Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2006 2006, 2006, 22.
The Brett Whiteley Studio (Australia, estab. 1994) (Author), Whiteley & Rees: More affinities, Sydney, 2005, (illus.). List of works
'Under the influence: the work of Lloyd Rees and Brett Whiteley hangs side-by-side in a new exhibition' by Jane Hampson, pg. 12-16., Look Feb 2001, Feb 2001, front cover (colour illus.), 5 (colour illus.), 12 (colour illus.), 13.
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, Domain, 2001, 3 (colour illus.), 8.
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Bruce James (Australia) (Author), John McDonald (Australia, b.1961) (Author), Peter Pinson (Australia, b.1943) (Author), Gavin Fry (Author), Sasha Grishin AM (Australia) (Author), Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Author), Australian painters of the twentieth century, Roseville, 2000, 64 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 286 (colour illus.), 301.
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, Sydney, 1995, 5, 13.
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 66 (colour illus.).
Janet Hawley (Author), Encounters with Australian Artists: The Award-Winning Interviews, Queensland, 1993, 24 (illus.).
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 30 (illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Patrick McCaughey (Northern Ireland; Australia, b.1943) (Author), Twentieth century Australian masterworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Fred Williams Pilbara Series, Tokyo, 1985, 24 (colour illus.). cat.no. 8
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 78 (colour illus.).
'The artistic development of Lloyd Rees' by Roland Wakelin, pg. 490-492., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly Oct 1969, Oct 1969, 489 (cover illus.), 490.
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Lloyd Rees Retrospective, Sydney, 1969, 10, 27. cat.no. 32
Hal Missingham (Australia, b.1906, d.1994) (Author), A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Domain, 1953. cat.no. 154
- Exhibition history (16)
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Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1947), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], 23 Aug 1947–10 Sep 1947.
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Oct 1969–02 Nov 1969.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Queensland Art Gallery, Nov 1969–Dec 1969.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 01 Feb 1970–28 Feb 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 17 Mar 1970–13 Apr 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of South Australia, 01 May 1970–31 May 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of Western Australia, 18 Jun 1970–21 Jul 1970.
Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 01 Aug 1970–31 Aug 1970.
Twentieth century Australian masterworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Fred Williams Pilbara series from the collection of CRA Limited, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 04 Oct 1985–06 Nov 1985.
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993.
Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001.
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, 03 Dec 2005–09 Apr 2006.
Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006.
