Etching and Collecting: Prints from the Burnell Bequest of Monash University with Selected Works from Other Public Galleries
Dates:
September – October 1985
Artists:
Adolphe Appian, Edmund Blampied, Sir David Muirhead Bone, Gerald Brockhurst, Henry Stuart Brown, Gustave Courbet, Francisco de Goya, Frederick Landseer Griggs, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Albany Howarth, Maxime Lalanne, Alphonse Legros, Lionel Lindsay, James McBey, Adolphe Martial, Charles Meryon, Jean-Francois Millet, William Robins, Sir Henry George Rushbury, William Strang, Sydney Ure Smith, Anthony van Dyck, Adriaen van Ostade, Rembrandt van Rijn, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Anders Leonard Zorn
Curator:
John Gregory
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
An accomplished engineer, John Gurner Burnell (1942–1956), was also a lifelong supporter of the arts, taking on roles of a president of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and a trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria. His private collection reflected his interest in printmaking, particularly European etching of the seventeenth to early twentieth century, and was bequeathed to Monash University in 1967. This exhibition was the first public display of works from the Burnell bequest and included important impressions by Rembrandt van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck, Francisco Goya, as well as Australian artist Lionel Lindsay’s Spanish landscapes from the late 1920s.
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Image: Anthony van Dyck, Jan Bruegel c.1635, etching, 4th of 7 states, 24.4 x 15.5 cm. Monash University Collection, Melbourne. Burnell Bequest of Monash University