Out of the West exhibition at the National Gallery

The National Gallery have announced their next exhibition “Out of the West”:

Out of the West is the first survey exhibition outside Western Australia to present a large sample of artists from the past to the present from Western Australia. It takes a unique look at the art from Western Australia from pre-settlement until today.

The works in this exhibition include the well known alongside new discoveries. Works by established early artists, Robert Dale, Thomas Turner, Frederick Garling, James W R Linton, A B Webb and Kathleen O’Connor, as well as those by more recent artists such as Herbert McClintock, Harold Vike, Elise Blumann, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Howard Taylor, Brian Blanchflower, James Angus and Rodney Glick, will be shown, alongside significant works by many less familiar names.

It’s going to run from 8 July 2011 to 1 April 2012.

[Image: James W.R. LINTON, born England 1869 died Australia 1947, Falls Road, late evening 1926 Perth, Purchased 1980]