Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, upstairs.
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xenithAnother visit to TMAG (Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery). Upstairs this time.
This gallery didn't seem to have any unifying theme. The first couple of cabinets have art objects them in but then
there are shell necklaces and some more practical wooden & pottery type items
and these "beach figures". The art around the walls is a mixture of standard landscapes and racial themes, or both. Then I went back to the door to read the information panel there, and it made sense.
After reading that, this fits in very well.
I went in to see if the Islands to Ice exhibition was the same, and it was so I didn't stay long.
I took this photo mostly to see if it would come out, as it was up high and in glass. It's the figurehead from a whaling ship.
The caption for this is "This simple carved sculpture of a full bearded male was found in 1989 on Heard Island by Harry Burton. It is assumed that it was made by someone involved in the 'Oil trades' as the island was only rarely visited between the end of the Elephant sealing era (1853-early twentieth century) and the Australian science programmes in the 1950s."
Back through the Progress & Politics gallery, on the other side of the stairwell is the Salon Gallery, which has temporary exhibitions.
Note the fireplace.
Onto the next room, which is the "Modern Age."
Another fireplace.
The Modern Age from the next gallery, "Dispossessions and Possesions." Note the two panels there between the doors, which you can read or not. I didn't.
Most of these paintings are, what's the word, overused? popular? They turn up on postcards, in calendars, as prints*, as book illustrations. The sort of pictures you don't look at because you see them all the time. And there they are, all concentrated in one place. A bit weird. (*I have one of those on the wall there)
Except this one I haven't seen and I can't read the artist's name. It comes with a key too, which I mostly can't read either. The one on the left is "Incredulity", then
Attention - Trucanini, wife of Woureddy - Anger
Cheerfulness - Mannalargenna, the Chief - The manner of straightening a spear
Woureddy, a native of Bruny Island - Timmy? - Suspicion.
The caption says:
"Couch, Maker unknown (Tasman Peninsula), c.1830
"The construction of this couch suggests that it was made by a craftsman who was proficient in working with wood, but was not a furniture maker. The extensive use of iron fitting and minimal shaping, rather than carving, of the timber suggest the work of a cart- or shipwright."
This is an interesting little display. In front of the sculpture
is a table, and the letter says:
Dear Franklin Simmons,
I regret to inform you that the left little finger of your Medusa sculpture has gone missing.
Unfortunately we do not know exactly how and when the finger was lost. Medusa had all her fingers when she arrived at the Museum in 1901. There are many different stories about what may have happened.
We would be very grateful if you could carve a replacement marble finger for Medusa.
Your Sincerely, The Director.
And to finish off, the other end of the gallery which is "Arts and crafts", and it has a fireplace!
This gallery didn't seem to have any unifying theme. The first couple of cabinets have art objects them in but then
there are shell necklaces and some more practical wooden & pottery type items
and these "beach figures". The art around the walls is a mixture of standard landscapes and racial themes, or both. Then I went back to the door to read the information panel there, and it made sense.
After reading that, this fits in very well.
I went in to see if the Islands to Ice exhibition was the same, and it was so I didn't stay long.
I took this photo mostly to see if it would come out, as it was up high and in glass. It's the figurehead from a whaling ship.
The caption for this is "This simple carved sculpture of a full bearded male was found in 1989 on Heard Island by Harry Burton. It is assumed that it was made by someone involved in the 'Oil trades' as the island was only rarely visited between the end of the Elephant sealing era (1853-early twentieth century) and the Australian science programmes in the 1950s."
Back through the Progress & Politics gallery, on the other side of the stairwell is the Salon Gallery, which has temporary exhibitions.
Note the fireplace.
Onto the next room, which is the "Modern Age."
Another fireplace.
The Modern Age from the next gallery, "Dispossessions and Possesions." Note the two panels there between the doors, which you can read or not. I didn't.
Most of these paintings are, what's the word, overused? popular? They turn up on postcards, in calendars, as prints*, as book illustrations. The sort of pictures you don't look at because you see them all the time. And there they are, all concentrated in one place. A bit weird. (*I have one of those on the wall there)
Except this one I haven't seen and I can't read the artist's name. It comes with a key too, which I mostly can't read either. The one on the left is "Incredulity", then
Attention - Trucanini, wife of Woureddy - Anger
Cheerfulness - Mannalargenna, the Chief - The manner of straightening a spear
Woureddy, a native of Bruny Island - Timmy? - Suspicion.
The caption says:
"Couch, Maker unknown (Tasman Peninsula), c.1830
"The construction of this couch suggests that it was made by a craftsman who was proficient in working with wood, but was not a furniture maker. The extensive use of iron fitting and minimal shaping, rather than carving, of the timber suggest the work of a cart- or shipwright."
This is an interesting little display. In front of the sculpture
is a table, and the letter says:
Dear Franklin Simmons,
I regret to inform you that the left little finger of your Medusa sculpture has gone missing.
Unfortunately we do not know exactly how and when the finger was lost. Medusa had all her fingers when she arrived at the Museum in 1901. There are many different stories about what may have happened.
We would be very grateful if you could carve a replacement marble finger for Medusa.
Your Sincerely, The Director.
And to finish off, the other end of the gallery which is "Arts and crafts", and it has a fireplace!
