Australian Art Association
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The Australian Art Association, known as 'The Three A's' or 'AArtA', was a national body founded in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1912 by Edward Officer John Mather, Frederick McCubbin, Max Meldrum and Walt
Australian Art Association, catalogue of exhibition, Athenaeum, Collins Street, Oct. 1920, image courtesy State Library of Victoria
George W Lambert (1910) Chesham Street, shown in the 1913 exhibition. National Gallery of Australia
W. B. McInnes (1922) Malcolm and Gyp. Oil on canvas 153.4 × 122.8 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Felton Bequest, 1922
Charles Wheeler (1923) The Amber Necklace. Oil on canvas 167 x 120 cm. Exhibited: 1923 annual AArtA exhibition
Australian Academy of Art
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The Australian Academy of Art was a conservative Australian government-authorised art organisation which operated for ten years between 1937 and 1946 and staged annual exhibitions. Its demise resulted
Australian Art Association
…devoutly hoped that the Federal-ness of its aim will assume greater force and definiteness," an aim more nearly achieved in 1937 by the more conservative Australian Academy of Art with government support, though with members not as notable; and independently by the modernist, but factionalised, Contemporary Art Society in 1938…
Les Dwyer (1937). Foundation members of the Australian Academy of Art, Canberra, 19 Jun 1937. Back row, left to right: McInnes, Heysen, Croll, Harold Herbert, Rowell. Front row, left to right: D. Mayo, Norman Carter, Ure Smith, Menzies, Hoff, Eldershaw. Daphne Mayo Collection, University of Queensland
Harry B. Harrison (c. 1929) Meg Morrison, oil on canvas, 160.0 × 122.8 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Rayner Hoff (1932) Amphion and Antiope, plaster, bronze paint 63.5 × 37.4 × 2.3 cm. National Gallery of Victoria
John Longstaff (c. 1932) Alfred Felton, oil on canvas, 139.4 × 95.9 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne