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2007 - January 18

Newly traced works by Wlad Dutkiewicz

I now have a photograph of the wonderful painting of the Polish folk dance group, Mazowsze, painted by my late father in the late 1960s, which a friend discovered in Sydney.

Not long before this picture arrived I also received correspondence from a collector who now resides in Glasgow, Scotland - his painting, titled Corroboree, was first exhibited in Newcastle, Australia, in 1963, and relates to the Aboriginal series in the book. I was unable to include in the book a representative work from a prior series based on Aboriginal culture, dating from 1953.

I also received another jpeg of a painting last year, but have forgotten details now. I’ll look into it and see if I can find out more. It belongs to the Opal Field series from 1965, the main painting from which is also recorded in the monograph, A Matter of Mind.

At the end of 2005 one of Wlad’s groundbreaking paintings from the early 1950s emerged on the art market though Elders in Adelaide - titled Concrete Music. It was one of three large format works he painted around this time, when he was beginning to explore the connection between music and painting as part of his emerging abstracted expressionist and constructivist art practice. The first in this sequence of three large works was For Stravinsky (1954), a substantial detail of which is reproduced in the monograph. The third in this sequence was titled Tocatta, referring to the music of J.S. Bach. I would like to know what happened to Concrete Music (click on the picture below for a very large file - it takes a while to download on modem).

To date I have had no luck tracing the painting Marcel Marceau, sold through Bob & Maureen Dunn’s Jibilla Gallery, Aldgate, around 1967. I have found two drawings, one of which is below. I would also like to locate the painting titled Party (modelled on Beatniks, a watercolour reproduced in the monograph), which was sold through Hill-Smith Gallery, Adelaide, around 1995. I would also like to trace two paintings spoken fondly of by my late mother - St. Cecilia and Rocking Horse, dating from ca.1963. If you know of the whereabouts of these paintings or of any major works by my father, please contact me and let me know.

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<meta content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /><meta content="Adam Dutkiewicz" name="AUTHOR" /><meta content="20070613;9275400" name="CREATED" /><meta content="Adam Dutkiewicz" name="CHANGEDBY" /><meta content="20070613;9282800" name="CHANGED" /> <style type="text/css">  </style></p> <p><font size="2"></font><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif">[Harbourside] 1956</font></p> <pre /> </div> </div> <div class="post"> <h3>2007 - January 13</h3> <h3 id="post-63"><a href="http://moonarrow.nfshost.com/http:/moonarrow.nfshost.com/personal-projects/%post-name%/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Architectural Fellowship">Architectural Fellowship</a></h3> <div class="entry"> <p><a title="lobethal-church.jpg" onclick="doPopup(281);return false;" class="imagelink" href="http://moonarrow.nfshost.com/wp-content/lobethal-church.jpg"><img width="127" height="96" alt="lobethal-church.jpg" id="image281" src="http://moonarrow.nfshost.com/wp-content/lobethal-church.thumbnail.jpg" /></a><br /> My Fellowship for the Department of Environment & Heritage and the Architecture Museum is moving forward apace. The project entails an examination of the architectural output of Brian Claridge (1924-1979), a neat connection with the book on my late father. Brian was a practising architect in Adelaide from 1950-1970, after which time he lectured in architecture at the University of Adelaide. At the time of his death he was Senior Lecturer.</p> <p>Brian’s father, Philip, was a significant architect in South Australia too - his firm designed the Westpac Building on the corner of North Terrace and King William Street in Adelaide, as well as Prospect Town Hall and Burnside City Council Chambers. He was also the designer of legendary cricketer Sir Donald Bradman’s home. He was Mayor of Burnside twice, during the war and from 1956-59.</p> <p>I have traced a number of buildings designed by Brian in Adelaide. Two of his best houses were his own, in Stoneyfell, and the Sedunary House in Crafers, which was recognised a few years later as one of the best contemporary designs in the country in that era. He also designed renovations for Loreto Convent and Cabra College, as well as two kindergartens and two bank offices. Above: Roman Catholic church at Lobethal, Adelaide Hills, 1965. Below: Brian (standing) with associates in the Timber House, 6th Architectural Convention Exhibition, Botanic Park, Adelaide, 1956. 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