Roland Wakelin b. 1887

  • Artist
Modernist painter, Roland Wakelin, was born in New Zealand in 1887. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1912 where he studied under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo and Norman Carter at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
exhibited at
Matson Lines' exhibition of Australian Art at the California Palace of Legion of Honour in San Francisco and the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950
Date
2007 - 2009
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Touring exhibition curated by National Gallery Director, Ron Radford.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.nga.gov.au/AboutUs/press/OceanToOutback.cfm
exhibited at
Roland Wakelin: master of colour
Date
2002
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

A Newcastle Region Gallery touring exhibition

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Roland Wakelin: master of colour. [Newcastle, NSW: Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 2002]
ISBN 0734720327

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Date
1972
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

memorial exhibition

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1967
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tribute to Roland Wakelin
Date
1962
Place
Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1959
Place
National Gallery of Victoria
Description

a survey show of Australian Post-Impressionists

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Christmas selection 1
Date
23 November 1955 - 5 December 1955
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Northwood Group
Date
5 May 1948 - 17 May 1948
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Flower paintings: by well known artists
Date
30 April 1946 - 18 May 1946
Place
Myer Art Gallery, Melbourne, Vic.
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1942
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

A retrospective exhibition, showing sixty-six of Wakelin’s works from 1916 to 1942

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1930
Place
Ball Green, Turramurra, NSW
Description

The home of Ethel Anderson, Australian painter, poet and essayist.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1926
Place
Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1925
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

also in 1928, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Solo exhibition
Date
1922
Place
Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition