Lloyd Rees literary manuscripts, drawings for 'The small treasures of a lifetime' and various sound recordings, 1968-1988

MLMSS 2960
PX*D 142
MLOH 127

fonds

1968-1988

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Drawings

852685

Copy print : PX*D 142
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading RoomDigitised : MLOH 127

1 box - manuscript
14 drawings - pen and ink - various sizes
12 audiocassettes (5 hr., 57 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

MLMSS 2960
Literary manuscripts, 1968-1969
Includes draft of The Twenties in Sydney and other memories, Early Australian Artists, Epilogue and Working from nature.
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room.

PX*D 142
The sketches illustrate the book written by Lloyd Rees entitled 'The small treasures of a lifetime : some early memories of Australian art and artists', Sydney : Ure Smith, 1969. Sketches are titled from the book.
Eleven drawings are signed 'LR' and four are signed 'L. Rees'; all are dated; three are titled in ink.
Artist's numbering in biro on mounts as follows: 2-8, 13, 15-18, 20, 21. Mounts since discarded.

MLOH 127/1-11
Item 1: Lloyd Rees oral history interview by Frank Rees
Item 2: Lloyd Rees Forum, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Item 3A: Lloyd Rees speaks at the Tasmanian School of Art
Item 4: Opening of a Lloyd Rees and Kenneth Jack exhibition of lithographs at Artarmon Galleries in Sydney
Item 5: Lloyd Rees interview, 24 July 1984
Item 6: Lloyd Rees speaks at the opening of his exhibition in Adelaide in 1986
Item 7: Lloyd Rees' acceptance speech for the Painters and Sculptors' Society Inaugural Medal, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 1986
Item 8: Opening speech of the 'Lloyd Rees as Printmaker' exhibition at the Brisbane Civic Art Gallery
Item 9: Lloyd Rees interview, 13 February 1987
Item 10: Opening speech by Prime Minister Bob Hawke of a Lloyd Rees exhibition at the Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum
Item 11: Lloyd Rees interview by Sue Becker

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Keyword subjects:

St Lucia (Qld.)
Mobolin (St Lucia, Qld : residences)
Queensland National Bank (Brisbane, Qld.)
Copy available at CY MLOH 127/1-11