Title

The road to Berry

1947

Artist

Lloyd Rees

Australia

17 Mar 1895 – 02 Dec 1988

Artist profile

Alternate image of The road to Berry by Lloyd Rees

Details

Place where the work was made

Gerringong → New South Wales → Australia

Date

1947

Media category

Painting

Materials used

oil on canvas on paperboard

Dimensions

34.6 x 42.2 cm board; 46.3 x 53.6 x 4.5 cm frame

Signature & date

Signed l.r. corner, brown oil "L REES [obscured by frame]". Not dated.

Credit

Purchased 1947

Location

Naala Nura, ground level, 20th-century galleries

Accession number

7940

Copyright

© A&J Rees/Copyright Agency
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Lloyd Rees
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Works in the collection

801

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About

Rees painted 'The road to Berry' in Gerringong, on the south coast of New South Wales, looking into the distance towards the road that led to Berry. The painting came to have special significance to a number of younger artists, including John Olsen and Brett Whiteley:

"'The road to Berry' is a tiny picture I remember painting from under a copse of trees ... and I just remember a small canvas and a sort of rhythmical movement that just happened; I was always amazed at the attraction it had ... I was never able to repeat that little picture, and that's a good thing."
- Lloyd Rees 1987
Places

Where the work was made

Gerringong
Exhibition history
Shown in 11 exhibitions
- Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1947), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 23 Aug 1947–10 Sep 1947
- A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
- Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Oct 1969–02 Nov 1969
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Nov 1969–Dec 1969
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 01 Feb 1970–28 Feb 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 17 Mar 1970–13 Apr 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 01 May 1970–31 May 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 18 Jun 1970–21 Jul 1970
  
  Lloyd Rees Retrospective (1969-70), Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 01 Aug 1970–31 Aug 1970
- Twentieth century Australian masterworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Fred Williams Pilbara series from the collection of CRA Limited, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, , 04 Oct 1985–06 Nov 1985
- Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, 13 Jul 1993–05 Sep 1993
  
  Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Sep 1993–14 Nov 1993
- Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
- Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees (2001), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 10 Feb 2001–08 Jul 2001
- Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 03 Dec 2005–10 Apr 2006
  
  Whiteley & Rees: more affinities (2006), New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 29 Apr 2006–02 Jul 2006
- Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 Sep 2013–08 Dec 2013
- 20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
- Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
Bibliography
Referenced in 30 publications
- Clary Akon, Limelight Magazine, 'Nature by design: the art of Lloyd Rees', pg. 96-97, Sydney, Jun 2013, 96 (colour illus.), 97.
- Christopher Allen, The Weekend Australian, 'Tangible Life Forms', pg. 12-13, Sydney, 01 Jun 2013-02 Jun 2013, 13 (colour illus.).
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2006, Sydney, 2006, 22.
- Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Australian 20th century art', pp 71-89, Sydney, 1984, 78 (colour illus.).
- Edmund Capon, Lloyd Rees Drawings - Centenary Retrospective, 'Foreward', p 5, Sydney, 1995, 5, 13.
- Betty Clarke, Lloyd Rees, ‘Introduction’, pp 13-17, Melbourne, Mar 1981, 14, 15, 25 (illus.). cat.no. 10
- Renée Free, Lloyd Rees, ‘Part II: from Gerringong to Europe: 1943-59’, pp 68-77, Melbourne, 1972, 69 (colour illus.). cat.no. O107; plate no. 13
- Renée Free, Lloyd Rees Retrospective, 'The landscape of Lloyd Rees', pp 4-13, Sydney, 1969, 10, 27. cat.no. 32
- Jane Hampson, Look, 'Under the influence: the work of Lloyd Rees and Brett Whiteley hangs side-by-side in a new exhibition', pp 12-16, Melbourne, Feb 2001, front cover (colour illus.), 5 (colour illus.), 12 (colour illus.), 13.
- Deborah Hart, Australia, 'Australian landscape: pathways into the modern world 1920-50', pg. 184-225, London, 2013, 188, 217 (colour illus.). cat.no. 151
- Janet Hawley, Encounters with Australian Artists: The Award-Winning Interviews, ‘Lloyd Rees’, pp 14-26, Queensland, 1993, 24 (colour illus.).
- Janet Hawley, Artists in conversation, 'Brett Whiteley', pp 92-107, Richmond, 2012, ix (colour illus.), 99.
- Robert Hughes, The art of Australia, ‘Landscape, with various figures’, pp 75-93, Melbourne, 1970, 91 (colour illus.), 92.
- Lou Klepac, Affinities: Brett Whiteley & Lloyd Rees, 'Introduction', pp 2-4, Sydney, 2001, 3 (colour illus.), 8.
- Lou Klepac, Rees - Whiteley, On the Road to Berry, ‘Introduction’, pp 4-12, Melbourne, 1993, 4 (colour illus.), 14. cat.no. 1
- Lou Klepac, Australian painters of the twentieth century, 'Lloyd Rees', pp 64-75, Sydney, 2000, 64 (colour illus.).
- Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, 'Celebrating Lloyd Rees: a book and show on the Gallery's collection of his work', pg. 21-23, Sydney, Mar 2013, 21, 22.
- Elwyn Lynn, The Australian landscape and its artists, ‘Artists and paintings’, pp 5-6, Rushcutters Bay, 1977, 6, 92, 93 (colour illus.).
- Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pp 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 66 (colour illus.).
- Hal Missingham, A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Sydney, 1953. cat.no. 154
- New South Wales Society of Artists, Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1947), ‘Catalogue: gallery one: oils’, Sydney, 1947, n.pag.. cat.no. 41; priced 25 guineas
- Magret Olds, Australia through time, ‘Australia: 1947’, pp 330-331, Sydney, 1993, 331 (colour illus.). titled 'The Road to Berry'
- Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian', pp 13-35, Sydney, 1988, 30 (illus.).
- Barry Pearce, Twentieth century Australian masterworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Fred Williams Pilbara Series, ‘Lloyd Rees b. 1895’, pp 24-27, Tokyo, 1985, 24 (colour illus.). titled 'The Road to Berry'; cat.no. 8
- Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Earth and paradise', pp 283-284, Sydney, 2000, 286 (colour illus.), 301.
- Lloyd Rees, Lloyd Rees: an artist remembers, ‘The South Coast and Bathurst, 1944-58’, pp 49-66, Sydney, 1987, 52 (colour illus.), 53, 152. plate no. 15
- Kathie Sutherland, Brett Whiteley: A sensual lilne 1957-67, Victoria, 2010, 19.
- The Brett Whiteley Studio, Whiteley & Rees: More affinities, Sydney, 2005, (illus.). List of works
- Imants Tillers, Artist's choice: five decades of artists' writing, 'Introduction: the artist's voice', pg. 6-8, Australia, 2016, front cover (colour illus.), 6, 12, 13 (colour illus.), 179, 180.
- Roland Wakelin, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'The artistic development of Lloyd Rees', pp 490-492, Sydney, Oct 1969, 489 (cover illus.), 490. ‘Lloyd Rees special number’