Artworks

Online art gallery

Wesley College has a fine collection of art, including artworks in the Alec Cato Collection of Australian paintings dating from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, as well as contemporary art.

Artists featured in the collection include John William Ashton, Sir Arthur Streeton, Sir Hans Heysen, Sir Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Percy Lindsay, Penleigh Boyd, Harold Herbert, Sir Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Maude Sherwood, Louise Hearman, Melinda Harper, Fiona Foley and Rosslynd Piggott.

Selected artworks from the collection are exhibited at Wesley, but also loaned to public galleries for exhibition and research purposes.

The College continues to add to the collection with the acquisition of contemporary art, including student artworks. Artworks not on public display are available for viewing, by appointment.

The Wesley College Art Collection Online Gallery, below, features a selection of artworks from the collection.

Enlarge image Sir John Ashton (1881 - 1963), Boats and Barge in France, c.1913 Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890 - 1923), In the Blue Mountains, Oil on Canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Jesse Jewhurst Hilder (1881 - 1916) The Bridge 1914 Watercolour Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Hans Heysen (1877 – 1968), The Quarry 1926, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Rubery Bennett (1893 – 1987), The Burragorang Valley, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956), Spanish Scene, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Ernest Buckmaster (1897 - 1968), Village in the Snow clad Mountains, 1938, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Harold Brocklebank Herbert (1892-1945), Middle East Street Scene, 1942, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Dunn Knox (1880 - 1945), The Upper Murray, Oil on board, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Dunn Knox (1880 - 1945), Farm on the Hill, Oil on board, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Hans Heysen (1877 - 1968), Hahndorf, 1921, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image James Ranalph Jackson (1882-1975), Autumn Morning, The Spit, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961) On A Venetian Canal, 1930 Watercolour Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), Winter Landscape, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917), Landscape with Trees, 1912, Oil on canvas, Gift of J Tweddle

Enlarge image Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), I Seized A Harlot By The Hair, Etching, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Robert Johnson (1890-1964), Landscape 1937, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), Cattle in Landscape, Oil on board, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Matthew James MacNally (1874-1943) Landscape 1920 Watercolour Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Beckwith McInnes (1889-1939), Farm at Eltham, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Beckwith McInnes (1889-1939), Arabian Scene with Potters, Oil on canvas on board, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), Thistles In Vase, Oil on cedar draper’s panel, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), Yea, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Reginald Ward Sturgess (1867-1943), Between The Showers, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Reginald Ward Sturgess (1867-1943), Creek By The Sea, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image John William Tristram (1870 – 1938), Trees in Landscape 1921, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Blamire Young (1862 -1935), Moonlit Landscape, Watercolour, Alec Cato Colllection

Enlarge image Tom Roberts (1856 - 1931), Goulburn at Trawool, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Hugh Ramsay (1877 - 1906), Nude Study – Man with Folded Arms, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Hans Heysen (1877 - 1968), Primroses 1929, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Albert Ernest Newbury (1891 - 1941), Group of Gums, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Beckwith McInnes (1889-1939), Landscape - Moonrise, Oil on board, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), Trio, Etching, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890 - 1923), The Yarra 1913, Oil on Canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image John S Loxton (1903-1971), Houses At Martinique, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image John S Loxton (1903-1971), Evening Calm, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Reginald Ward Sturgess (1867-1943), House By The Lake, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir Daryl Lindsay (1889-1976), Windmill At Hand Point, France, 1917, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image John Roy Eldershaw (1892-1973), Landscape with Country Road, Watercolour, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image James Ranalph Jackson (1882-1975), Summer’s Day, Sydney Harbour, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Ernest Buckmaster (1897 - 1968), White Camellias, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image William Dunn Knox (1880 -1945), Country Byways, Oil on board, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir John Ashton (1881 - 1963), Looking Towards the Heads, Sydney, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image John Thomas Nightingale Rowell (1894–1973), Pastoral, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Sir John Ashton (1881 - 1963), Looking into the Lights, Marseilles Harbour, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Herbert Rose (1888-1937), Moorish Gateway, Oil on canvas, Alec Cato Collection

Enlarge image Albert John Sherman (1882-1971), Golden Harmony, Oil on canvas board, Alec Cato Collection

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