Gordon A. Speary, ‘Road to Newhaven’, watercolour signed & dated 1940
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Gordon A. Speary (1914-1999)
‘Road to Newhaven’
Watercolour,
signed & dated lower right ‘GORDON A. SPEARY 1940’
This interesting little-known artist was active in the late 1930’s, earlier 1940’s, right up to the 1980’s. He was born in Wangaratta in 1914, died in Melbourne 1999.
He is recorded as having his first exhibition in 1937, at Melbourne University, ‘where he was on the staff’.
He had further exhibitions in 1938 and 1939, to mixed reviews.
In 1941, he enlisted to fight in WWII, and was placed in the 2nd Survey Regiment, R.A.A. He never left Australia, but was listed as serving in the ‘Department of Psychology’ when discharged in 1946.In 1950 he was a founding member of Melbourne’s ‘Holly Group’, a small number of diverse artists who held regular exhibitions. The group was “formed to exchange ideas, criticise one anothers work, and share costs” – not to form a school of a single outlook, as is usually the case.
He was also a member of “The Twenty Melbourne Painters Society’, and exhibited at their 1984 show, aged 70.
In 1940, Speary exhibited several works in a solo Melbourne exhibition at Riddell Galleries. This work appears to be No. 29: called “The Road” in The Age’s report, and “Road to Newhaven’ in The Herald.
The location is on the Phillip Island Road, just west of Newhaven.This work is painted on the back of a commercial print – a Philip Boileau ‘Edwardian girly’ image, ‘Waiting for You’ , from circa 1905.
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