Packsaddle Lecture Series: “The Case that Stopped a Nation”
New England Regional Art Museum 106-114 Kentucky Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, AustraliaVENUE: New England Regional Art Museum, 106=114 Kentucky Street. TIME: 5.30-7.00pm. COST: $10 (member), $15 (non-member) - available from www.trybooking.com/events/landing/859620 (50₵ booking fee applies) - booking essential. For more information, phone 02 6772 5255. The award of the Archibald Prize in 1944 to William Dobell for his “modernist” portrait of Joshua Smith provoked what one newspaper described at the time as “the biggest legal smash hit since Ned Kelly”. The controversy convulsed Sydney’s art world, knocked the Pacific War off […]