Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.
John Vickery: Commercial art and design of the 1950s
11 July - 29 July, 2006
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Introduction
John Vickery was born in 1906 and his family moved to Melbourne a few years later. He studied art at the National Gallery School (part-time) in 1923 and 1929-31 and exhibited at the V.A.S. and the Athenaeum Gallery (where Bernard Hall purchased work for the National Gallery of Victoria) on ... Read More
Exhibition Catalogue
Ford Mercury (with couple, porch and trees),
John Vickery
c. 1957
gouache on drawing board, 52.00 x 59.00
1957 Dodge Royal Lancer
John Vickery
c. 1957
ink & gouache on drawing board, 38.00 x 60.00
(2 door Saloon) Black & White (with futurist construction)
John Vickery
pen & ink wash, 56.00 x 41.50
1957 Chrysler/ De Soto/ Dodge (pre production - New England Harbor)
John Vickery
c. 1957
gouache on drawing board, 34.00 x 51.00
1956 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer (with couple and trees)
John Vickery
c. 1956
gouache & watercolour, 40.50 x 32.00
1957 Chrysler (single headlights; with Country house gates)
John Vickery
c. 1957
gouache on drawing board, 24.00 x 58.00
SOLD
(Red 4 door Family Saloon) – in mountain landscape
John Vickery
pastel & gouache, 22.00 x 44.00
Outposts of Empire – Barbados; Southern Rhodesia; Central Australia
John Vickery
1937
advertisements for the postal services, 51.00 x 64.00
SOLD
Gimbels - the look is you!
John Vickery
c. 1965
department store advertisement layout – 2 in pencil, 1 collage, and final newsprint
The Wrong Dog, story by John Savage
John Vickery
1950
gouache on drawing board, 50.00 x 37.00
SOLD
My Friend Joseph, story by Neil Patterson
John Vickery
watercolour & gouache on drawing board, 47.00 x 26.00
(London Street scene: a policeman, a woman in a white coat, and others, around a vegetable barrow)
John Vickery
c. 1937
gouache on drawing board, 31.00 x 28.00
Damn it all man, you've hung 23 - upside down
John Vickery
1958
pen & ink on paper, 27.00 x 30.90
SOLD