| 1912 |
When he was 17 he became seriously ill, and during his recovery he was
able to study art full-time at the Brisbane Technical College. He
developed a style in pen, pencil and watercolour which captured the
light and tone of Brisbane. |
| 1912 |
His
work was first shown publicly in Brisbane and after that he exhibited
in Australia and overseas in many one-man and group shows. |
| 1917 |
It was some of these Brisbane drawings that attracted the attention of Sydney Ure Smith, publisher of the influential magazine, Art in Australia, and in 1917 he was offered a job as a commercial artist in the Smith & Julius Studio in Sydney. |
| 1931 |
Married
Marjory Pollard, and they went to live at Northwood, on the Lane Cove
River. At the time he was concentrating on pencil drawings of
Sydney, the harbour and the suburbs, and these detailed, yet idealized
works assured his reputation as one of Australia’s finest draughtsmen. |
| 1937 |
He
gained significant international recognition when he was awarded the
Silver Medal for Drawing at the 1937 Paris International Exposition. |
| 1937 |
It
was not until the late 1930s that he also began to be known for his oil
paintings. He said that he realized then that he was starting to paint
with his pencil, and that it was time to seriously devote himself to
oils. However, drawing always remained an integral part of his work,
either as finished works or as notes for paintings. |
| 1942 |
The first of four major retrospective exhibitions of his work, organised by the Art Gallery of NSW was presented. |
| 1950 |
He won the Wynne Prize for Landscape. |
| 1951 |
He won the Commonwealth Jubilee Art Prize. |
| 1969 |
The second of four major retrospective exhibitions of his work, organised by the Art Gallery of NSW was presented. |
| 1969 |
He wrote ‘The Small Treasures of a Lifetime’. |
| 1970 |
The University of Sydney awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. |
| 1975 |
He
was first introduced to the technique of soft-ground etching, and then
to lithography. He became very interested in the medium and,
working with printers such as Max Miller and Fred Genis, he made over
100 prints. |
| 1977 |
He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (C.M.G.). |
| 1981 |
The third of four major retrospective exhibitions of his work, organized by the University Gallery, Melbourne was presented. |
| 1982 |
He won the Wynne Prize for Landscape. |
| 1984 |
The University of Tasmania awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. |
| 1985 |
He was made Companion of the Order of Australia (A.C.). |
| 1985 |
He wrote ‘Peaks and Valleys’ |
| 1987 |
The
City of Paris awarded him the Medaille de la Ville de Paris (Echelon
Vermeil) in recognition of his international standing as an artist. |
| 1987 |
He won the inaugural Jack Manton Prize. |
| 1987 |
He wrote ‘An Artist Remembers’ |
| 1988 |
He was included in the Australian Bicentennial Authority’s ‘Two Hundred People who made Australia Great’. |
| 1988 |
Lloyd Rees died on 2nd December 1988 in Hobart. |
| 1990 |
Wrote with Renée Free, ‘Lloyd Rees: the last twenty years’. (published in 1990) |
| 1995 |
The
fourth retrospective exhibition of his drawings was presented to mark
the centenary of his birth, organized by the Art Gallery of NSW. |
| 2002 |
An exhibition, ‘Lloyd Rees European Sketchbooks and related works’, was shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (touring exhibition). |
