Hugh Sawrey Collection

Collection

Accession number
31897
Date
1960-2010
Author / Creator
Sawrey, Hugh, 1923-1999 artist.
Abstract
Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, drawings, visual diaries and notes, original art works, annotated published materials, exhibition catalogues, administrative papers related to the establishment of The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach, video recordings, cassettes and compact disks with interviews and personal items that belonged to Australian artist Hugh Sawrey including his hat and artist's palette.
System of arrangement
Arranged into 4 series
Description
6 boxes of professional papers, newspaper clippings, works of art, sketchbooks, various realia.
Administrative / Biographical history

Hugh David Sawrey was born at Forest Glen, near Buderim, Queensland, 3rd March 1919. His childhood was spent at various properties in outback Queensland and he later earned his living as a stockman. He served in World War II in New Guinea and returned to Queensland and the land at the conclusion of the war. Sawrey was a self- taught artist who pursued a career in art attaining success in the sixties with his first solo exhibition at the Grand Central Gallery in Brisbane in 1965. He established a Quarter Horse stud at Coomera, eventually moving to a new property in Victoria in 1978. Sawrey was the instigator for the establishment for the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach which opened in 1988. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1989 and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on 20 January 1999. Hugh Sawrey died at Wangaratta Hospital 10th June 1999 -- from Artist's website and Design & Art Australian Online database: https://www.hughsawrey.com/bio/, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/hugh-sawrey/biography/

Access restrictions
Unrestricted access.
Copyright status

Multiple copyright statuses.

Conditions of use
Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0  
Preferred citation
31897, Hugh Sawrey Collection, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
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