Roland Wakelin
Roland Wakelin
Headland Rocks 1959
29.5×39.5cm oil on paper on board
Signed & dated lower right
Signed & titled verso
Macquarie Galleries label on reverse
The Roland Wakelin Memorial Exhibition
March 29 – April 17, 1972
$7000
Roland Wakelin
Roland Shakespeare Wakelin (1887-1971)
Roland Wakelin was born in New Zealand and studied at the RAS school in Sydney under Dattilo Rubbo from 1912 to 1914. In 1917 he joined the advertising firm of Smith and Julius, where he worked alongside de Maistre, Rees, Leason and others. At the RAS he saw prints of modern French paintings and fell under the spell of Cézanne. After travel in London and Paris he returned to Sydney and joined the Contemporary Group. Becoming a leading figure in the Sydney modernist movement, he held annual exhibitions from 1936 at the Macquarie Galleries. In 1967 the Art Gallery of New South Wales mounted a major retrospective of his work. Many of his serene, cubist inpired works are held by the National Gallery and state and regional galleries.
