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Richard Larter (b.1929)
Biography
1929 Born in London, England. Migrated to Australia in 1962.
1990 Visiting Senior Lecturer in Painting, University Auckland, New Zealand.
1987 Artist-in-Residence, University of New England Armidale, New South Wales.
1988 Artist-in-Residence, Riverina CAE, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
Awards
1965 Berrima Prize
1967 Perth prize (for drawing)
1996 Winner: Joan & Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Australian
Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Art Gallery of New South Wales
University of Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia
Tasmanian CAE, Launcestan
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank, NSW
National Gallery of Victoria
New Parliament House, ACT
Queensland Art Gallery
MOCA, Brisbane
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, Vic
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Philip Morris Art Purchase Grant
Alice Springs Art Gallery, NT
Mildura Arts Centre, Vic
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tas
Flinders University, Adelaide
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic
Macquarie University, NSW
Cairns Municipal Collection, Qld
Monash University, Vic.
Coffs Harbour Municipal Collection, NSW
State College of Victoria
Bathurst City Art Gallery, Vic
Wollongong City Gallery, NSW
Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic
Geelong Art Gallery, Vic
New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
National Australia Bank Collection
University Art Museum, University of QLD
BHP Collection
Western Australian Institute of Technology
Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic
Sydney College of Advanced Education,NSW
Burnie CAE, Tas
Burnie Art Gallery, Tas
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Qld
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic
Muswellbrook Art Gallery, NSW
University of Western Australia
Broken Hill Art Gallery, NSW
Townsville Teachers College, QLD
Allen, Allen & Hemsley, NSW
IBM Collection
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Estee Lauder, New York
Private Collections
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Stripperama, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2002 Watters Gallery, Sydney
2000 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1999 70th Birthday Celebration, Watters Gallery & Legge Gallery, Sydney
1999 Solander Gallery, Canberra
1998 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1998 Floriade, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra
1997,96 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Watters Gallery, Sydney, with Pat Larter
1994 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1993 Figures, with Euan Macleod, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1993, 91 & 89 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1989 Legge Gallery, Sydney
1988 & 86 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1987 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1986 Victor Mace Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
1985 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
1985 Richard Larter: A Survey 1985, University Art Museum, Queensland
University and touring.
1985 Gerstman Abdallah Fine Arts International, Melbourne
1984 & 82 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1980 Solander Gallery, Sydney
1980 & 79 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1983, 81 & 79 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1978 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1977 & 76 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1977 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1976 Art Gallery of South Australia (Link Exhibition)
1975 Watters Gallery, Sydney
1975 Abraxas Gallery, Canberra
1974 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1973-1965 Watters Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 Erotic, Melbourne Fine Art Gallery
1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1998 Art & Furniture of the 1960s, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1998 The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1998 Blue Chip Choice: Collectors Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1998 The Female Form Divine, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Symbiosis, Utopia Art, Sydney; New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
1997 Wall to Wall, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1997 Of the Air: Warfare, with Ian Howard and Ken Whisson, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1996 Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 The Joan & Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, (winner), National Gallery of Victoria
1996 The Contemporary Collection II, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney.
1996 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1996 Triennial of Australian Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
1996 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1995/96 In and Out of Abstraction (with Dick Watkins & Howard Arkley), National
Gallery of Victoria
1995 Australian Art 1940-1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
1995 1968 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1995 Hidden Treasures, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings – Works from the Allen Allen &
1993 Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Death, curated by Felicity Fenner & Anne Loxley, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1991 Artists Make Books, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1990 Art on the Campus, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney
1990 Visual Instincts, Holdsworth Galleries, NSW
1990 Cambrat: A selection of works by artists from the ACT and districts, Drill HallGallery, ACT
1990 L’Ete Australien A Montpellier, France
1989 Prints and Australia: Pre-settlement to Present, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
1989 Australian Paintings from the Joseph Brown Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1989 Australian Art Post 1960, Deutscher Gertrude St, Melbourne
1989 First View from the Collection, MOCA., Brisbane
1989 Portrait of a Gallery, Watters Gallery 25th anniversary exhibition, touring regional centres
1989 Work from the studios of….., with Klippel, Plapp, Varvaressos, Eager & Bettinson
1988 Australian Art: 1920s-1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
1988 The Great Australian Art Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery & all State Galleries
1988 First Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1988 Drawing in Australia from 1770s to 1980, Australian National Gallery, ACT
1988 Australian Art Post 1960, inaugral exhibition
1988 The Caddy Collection, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1988 Max Watters’ Collection, Muswellbrook Art Gallery, NSW
1987 Field to Figuration, National Gallery of Victoria
1987 Works from the Collection, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW
1987 Contemporary Art in Australia – A Review, Museum of Contemporary Art, QLD
1986 Oz Drawing Now, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, NSW
1986 Thirty Three Man Painters (The Male Sensibility?), Heide Park & Art
Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Australian Art: Colonial to Modern, Deutscher Fine Art at Parmelia Hilton
Hotel, Perth & ‘Lindsay’, Sydney
1986 Two Centuries of Australian Painting, Orange Regional Gallery
1985 Recent Acquisitions of Australian Prints, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1985 Selected Works from the Last Two Decades, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1985 Thirty Years On, a survey of works on paper, Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 The Mosaic, The Grid, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1983 Richard Larter, John Peart, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1983 Acquisitions 1973-83, University Art Museum, University of Queensland
1983 Figures & Faces Drawn from Life, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1983 Recent Australian Painting 1970-83, Art Gallery of South Australia
1982 Australian Painting & Sculpture 1956-81, Survey from the Collection
1981 Three Years On, Exhibition of Acquisitions, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1981 Spectres of our Time, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide
1980 Recent Paintings from the studios of…., Watters Gallery, Sydney
1980 Videos, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1979 Drawing 79, Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne
1978 21st Tasmanian Art Gallery Exhibition, Hobart
1978 Lost and Found: Objects and Images, Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne
1978 Tapestry and the Australian Painter, National Gallery of Victoria
1978 Contemporary Australian Drawing, Western Australian Art Gallery
1978 AbstrCanberraion, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1977 Ghost Who Walks Can Never Die, Newcastle Region Art Gallery
1977 Watters at Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1977 Illusions & Reality, Art Gallery of outh Australia, & Art Gallery of NSW
1976 Thinking on Paper, Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide
1976 Mask Show, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
1976 Exhibition of Post Object Art Installations, Experimental Art Foundation, SA
1976 Peripheral Pictures (films), George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Vic
1976 Outlines in Australian Printmaking, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Vic
1976 Trustees Prize, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1976 Aspects of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1975 Women in Art, WAIT, Perth
1975 Inaugural Exhibition, Devonport Gallery, Tasmania
1974 3 + 3 + 1 + 3, Chapman Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
1974 Ten Years, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1973 Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1973 Project Show, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
1971 The Nude in Recent Painting, Gallery One Eleven, Brisbane
1971 Yellow House (Various Artists), Kings Cross, Sydney
1967 Sydney Painters, Auckland Festival of Art, New Zealand
1966 The New Art Scene, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
1965 Avant-Garde Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, Sydney
Selected Bibliography
Catalogues
The Joan & Peter Clemenger Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, 1996
Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, 1996
Contemporary Australian Paintings – Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection
Westpac Gallery, Melbourne 1993
Richard Larter, Niagara Galleries, 1993
Richard Larter, Niagara Galleries, 1992
Creating Australia, AGASA & ICCA, 1988
Richard Larter: A Survey, essay by Terence Maloon, University of Queensland, 1985
Freedom from Prejudice, National Gallery of Victoria, 1977
Books
Mary Eagle & John Jones, A Story of Australian Painting, Macmillan Australia, 1994
Ian Drury, New Art 2, Craftsman House, 1988
Gary Catalano, Bandaged Image, Hale & Iremonger, 1983
Gary Catalano, The Years of Hope: Australian Art & Criticism 1959-1968, Oxford University Press, 1981
Kym Bonython, Modern Australian Painting, 1950-75, Rigby, 1980
Kym Bonython, Modern Australian Painting, 1970-75, Rigby, 1976
Mervyn Horton, Australian Painters of the Seventies, Ure Smith, 1975
Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1788-1970, Oxford University Press, 1970
Mervyn Horton, Present Day Art in Australia, Ure Smith, 1969
Articles & Interviews
Roger Taylor, Articulation, 3RRR, 23/5/93
Joanna Mendelssohn, Art & Australia, Eroticism Issue, Vol 30, No 1, Spring 1992
Joanna Mendelssohn, The Grandfather of Oz Pop Art Still Rocking, Bulletin, 5/11/91
Illustrated
Oz Arts, Issue 3, 1992
Philippa Hawker, The Sunday Herald, 24/3/91
Chris Heathcote, The Age, 11/9/91
Gary Catalano, The Age, 15/11/89
Gary Catalano, ‘The Earlier Paintings of Richard Larter’, Art & Australia, Vol.11, No.1, 1973
Jenny Zimmer, The Sunday Herald, 5/11/89
Arthur McIntyre, ‘Time for Re-evaluation’, Art & Australia, Vol.2, No.3, 1987
Cantrills Filmnotes, No’s 37/38, April 1982; No’s 31/32, Nov 1979
Jennifer Phipps, ‘Films by Artists’, Art & Australia, Vol.18, No.1, 1980
Published by the artist:
13 Sections, 1994
The Magnificent Slum (Sold Out), 1970
You Can’t Drum (Sold Out), 1970
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