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New Acquisition
John Olsen, Woollahra, Sydney 1962
by David Moore (b.1927)
collage of nine gelatin silver photographs
43.8 x 72.0cm
Gift of the artist with assistance from L Gordon Darling AO CMG and Timothy Fairfax
"How a painter carries out a major commission is invariably of interest. I was privileged to work
with Olsen over a four-day period while he painted Summer in the You Beaut Country as a ceiling
for the art dealer Frank McDonald."
David Moore quoted, from Face to Face: Portraits by David Moore, 2000
Chapter and Verse in association with National Portrait Gallery
"When I came back from Europe the first time, Australia seemed so incredibly different that it
demanded a solution that was incredibly different. I thought that you had to be prepared for
the sake of truth to be terribly corny - which is the reason for that You Beaut Country thing.
The title's a satire upon what Australians call beauty. You're dealing with a new and interesting
sense of beauty that you don't get anywhere else. There's this fantastic plethora of fast-moving images
that Australians don't think of in a profound sense at all."
John Olsen quoted, In the Making, 1969
by Craig McGregor, David Beal, David Moore, Harry Williamson, Thomas Nelson.
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