Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1960-2008 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
128 boxes (Offsite Storage), 10 parcels.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Irene Amos (1927 - 2012) was an artist and a painter, teacher, administrator and supporter of Queensland's visual arts. She became a Queensland Art Gallery Society committee member in 1977, and held the positions of membership secretary, purchasing convenor and vice-president. Amos was awarded Australia's first Master of Creative Arts degree in 1986. She received the Order of Australia Medal in 1991. She gifted her personal art collection to the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1960-2008
Collection alternatively titled as: Irene Amos Collection.
Includes material formerly catalogued at UQFL236.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Art exhibition catalogues, programs, invitations, correspondence, newsletters, biographies, annual reports, notices, minutes, balance sheets, membership cards, supplements, typed drafts, receipts, posters, notices, cards, postcards, press clippings, constitutions. Some of this material relates to the Johnstone Gallery, Royal Queensland Art Society and Victor Mace Fine Arts.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except access to correspondence is Restricted access. Application for access may be submitted to the Fryer Librarian for consideration.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
The collection has been mentioned in:
Elena Dias-Jayasinha (2021) ‘The Verlie just town gallery and Japan room archive’, Queensland history journal, 24(11):1045–1056.
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Royal Queensland Art Society (Subject)
- Amos, Irene (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 22-Nov-2024.
Revised, AM, 10-Oct-2022.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.