Excerpt from The Julian Ashton Book
After forty years of invaluable service in the cause of art in Australia, Mr. Julian Ashton is compelled by failing health to give up active work as a painter. Some of his friends thought the time opportune for making a practical demonstration of the regard in which he is held by a large circle of colleagues and art lovers in Sydney. There seems no good reason why such a tribute should not be paid in the artist's lifetime. The long and disinterested efforts of Mr. Ashton have already borne fruit in the greater public appreciation of art now shown in Australia. A number of his pupils have risen to eminence in the world of art, and, what is most interesting, some of them in recent years have won recognition and a fair reward for their work without leaving this country. The way of all future artists in Australia has been made easier by the labours of Julian Ashton.
The form of memorial decided upon was that of an exhibition of the principal works of his lifetime, either loaned by the purchasers or borrowed from Mr. Ashton. In order to enhance the interest of the exhibition, Mr. Ashton has, at the request of the committee, consented to lend his Australian collection which he has been slowly making by purchase, exchange or presentation during the last twenty five years.
It was also considered that at the same time a small volume such as this should be published in order to record the impression made by Julian Ashton's personality upon his contemporaries, and to reproduce some typical examples of his work as a painter.
The Committee formed to carry out these purposes consists of Mr. C. Lloyd Jones (Chairman), Hon. W. A. Holman, M.L.A., Miss Rose Scott, Sir Samuel Hordern, Messrs. George Robertson, Elliott Gruner and Hal Eyre; Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens (Hon. Secretaries).
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