Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1930-1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Charles Henry Lancaster was born in Melbourne Victoria, in 1886. In 1904 he was apprenticed to the Melbourne firm Brooks Robinson Co. Ltd, glass merchants. He attended art classes at the National Gallery of Victoria art school and from 1914 became a regular exhibitor with the Queensland Art Society, later the Royal Queensland Art Society of Queensland. Noted for his local landscapes, in 1924 his work The Old Gum Tree was selected as the Queensland entry in the British Empire Exhibition in London. In 1934 he became a trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1930-1950
Collection alternatively titled as: Charles Henry Lancaster Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Biographical notes; newspaper and magazine cuttings; drawings; reviews, Royal Queensland Art Society exhibition catalogues; other art society publications; correspondence; scrap books and indenture document dated 1904.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
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
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Lovell, Sue Rosemary (2010). 'Vida Lahey's Progressive Activism for Children's Art Education', Australian Historical Studies, 41:3, 269-285.
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
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Libraries Australia ID
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Royal Queensland Art Society (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.