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    Adelaide - Entertainment and the Arts

    The Art Gallery

    "The Proposed Art Gallery" is in the Register,
    31 October 1878, page 4g,
    Observer,
    2 November 1878, page 10g; also see
    Chronicle,
    2 November 1878, page 6d.
    Observer,
    11 July 1891, page 42c.

    "An Art Gallery for SA" is in the Register,
    27 March 1880, page 4c,
    7 and 10 June 1880, pages 4d and 4e-5b,
    7, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21 October 1880, pages 7a, 5g, 4f, 7b, 4e and 4g,
    23 and 24 February 1881, pages 1g (supp.) and 6b,
    14, 25 and 26 April 1881, pages 4f, 4f and 1e (supp.),
    18 June 1881, page 4e-5a (opening),
    20 and 21 June 1881, pages 5f and 4f,
    Express,
    6 July 1881, page 3e,
    Register,
    3 October 1882, page 6c,
    1, 2 and 8 May 1883, pages 6a, 6e-7a-7g and 1g (supp.),
    5 and 8 June 1883, pages 4e and 7b,
    19 November 1883, page 6a.

    A complaint from Rev Lyall in respect of opening the gallery on Sundays is in the Register,
    18 June 1881, page 7b and
    responses to it on
    21, 27 and 28 June 1881, pages 6g, 2c (supp.) and 6g.
    A sketch is in the Pictorial Australian in
    February 1885.

    "Marshall Wood's Statuary" is in the Register,
    30 August 1881, page 5e.

    An "Artistic Robbery" at the gallery is reported in the Register,
    17 November 1885, pages 4g-6f; also see
    Express,
    4 August 1914, page 6g.

    "Additions to Art Gallery" is in the Express,
    8 July 1889, page 4e.

    Also see Register,
    18 November 1890, page 4h,
    8 January 1891, page 4f,
    11 December 1896, page 4g.
    Foundation trenches for the new Art gallery were dug in 1897 - see Register,
    10 and 18 August, pages 5h and 5g,
    Express,
    7 and 18 August 1897, pages 5c and 2d.
    The laying of its foundation stone is reported on
    20 and 21 April 1898, pages 5c and 4d-7d and
    its opening on
    7 and 9 April 1900, pages 5c-6e and 5i.

    "Government Buildings and the Art Gallery" is in the Register,
    20 and 26 November 1897, pages 4e and 5g.

    "Pictures and Critics" is in the Advertiser,
    11 August 1900, page 6f,
    "In the Art Gallery" on
    13 August 1901, page 6f.

    "At the Art Gallery - Some Reflections" is in the Advertiser,
    27 November 1902, page 5h.

    An obituary of Robert Kay is in the Chronicle,
    30 April 1904, page 34c.

    "The Art Gallery and Its Pictures" is in the Register,
    15 October 1904, page 6d.

    "Its Value to the People" is in the Advertiser,
    6 February 1906, page 6g.

    A history and description of the gallery is in the Register on
    30 July 1910, page 6c,
    13 August 1910, page 6c,
    4 and 7 May 1914, pages 8c-10e and 9a 1914,
    "Art Gallery Reminiscences" on
    17 March 1916, page 5b.

    "Open at Night" is in the Advertiser,
    7 May 1914, page 11a.

    "The Art Gallery - Its Place and Power" is in the Observer,
    9 May 1914, page 55a.

    "The Art Gallery" is in the Register,
    4, 6 and 7 May 1914, pages 8c, 10b and 9a.

    The retirement of A.M. Soule is reported in the Register,
    15 and 17 March 1916, pages 5a and 5b.

    "The Art Gallery" is in the Register,
    14 July 1917, page 6d.

    An obituary of G.A. Barnes is in the Observer,
    19 March 1921, page 31a,
    biographical details of H. van Raalte on
    26 September 1925, page 45c.

    "Adelaide's Cramped Picture Gallery" is in The Mail,
    24 March 1923, page 2e.

    Historical information on the gallery is in the Register,
    31 October 1923, page 10a.

    "Our Art Gallery - Candid Criticisms" is in The Mail,
    14 November 1925, page 2d.

    "Fortunes on Canvas at the Gallery" is in The Mail,
    20 May 1933, page 13.

    "Developments in the Art Gallery" is in the Advertiser,
    27 December 1933, page 6e,
    "Art Gallery Fosters Beauty and Culture" on
    8 December 1934, page 9d.

    "Famous Pictures in the Gallery" is in The Mail,
    9 May 1936, page 10d,
    15 August 1936, page 10e.

    "Beauty of New Art Gallery" is in the Advertiser,
    6 and 17 August 1937, pages 24e and 20f-22a.

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