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Oct 20, 2008 · In 1998 the Art Gallery of NSW held a focus exhibition on Madame Sophie Sesostoris (a pre-raphaelite satire) and an exhibition on Gleeson’s work entitled, James Gleeson: drawings for paintings, in 2006. Prior to his death in 2008, Gleeson and his partner Frank O’Keefe established the Gleeson-O’Keefe Bequest Fund which continues to ...
James Timothy Gleeson AO (21 November 1915 – 20 October 2008) was an Australian artist. [1] He served on the board of the National Gallery of Australia. Early life
James Gleeson. Born in 1915, Gleeson began painting in the 1930s in the surrealist style, further informed by a visit to Europe after the Second World War and by 1940 he was probably the leading surrealist in Australia. From the late 50s - 70s his career as an art critic, an author Read More. Solo Exhibitions at Charles Nodrum Gallery.
James Gleeson Biography. Regarded as Australia’s leading Surrealist artist, James Gleeson’s commitment to its philosophies and iconography was formulated during the Second World War through his belief that political circumstances in Europe demanded a radical response to the failure of Western culture and rationalism. Read More.
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James Austin Gleason (May 23, 1882 – April 12, 1959) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter born in New York City. [1] Gleason often portrayed "tough-talking, world-weary guys with a secret heart-of-gold."
James Gleeson (1915-2008) James Gleeson was the greatest interpreter of Pictorial Surrealism in Australia. Throughout his long career – Picassoan in length – his allegiance to the Surrealist ideal never waned. Even after a twenty-six-year hiatus from the easel, at the age of sixty-eight, he was driven to paint, perhaps with greater urgency ...
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Oct 20, 2008 · James Gleeson, born in 1915, became Surrealism’s most prominent practitioner and advocate in Australia. In the late 1930s Gleeson studied at the East Sydney Technical College and the Sydney Teachers College where he had access to a large library of art books and journals, although he considered that ‘I was born a Surrealist.’
