An exhibition featuring oil paintings by some of Australia’s leading late nineteenth and early twentieth Century artists will be displayed at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery until February 9, 2025.
The exhibition, Brushes of Sunlight: Oils from the Lindsay Collection, draws on artworks which are part of the Gallery’s nationally significant Lionel Lindsay Gallery and Library Collection.
The Gallery walls are aglow with works from the collection, which was established by noted art devotees William and Marion Bolton in Toowoomba in the 1950s.
The collection was officially opened by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1959 and has been housed at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery since 1994.
Guided by the collection’s namesake, Sir Lionel Lindsay, and his brother, Sir Daryl Lindsay, the Boltons acquired works by ‘Masters of Australian painting’ (Bill Bolton letter to Sir Lionel, 1 July 1957).
