Mariah Roberts knows the art of baking at Beach Pea Sep 2, 2008
Beach Pea Bakery in Kittery, Maine, owned by Mariah and Tom Roberts, is such a place by design. The pair opened in 2002. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Whistle-blowers accuse CSU over contracts Aug 18, 2008
" Under state law and CSU policy, university officials must produce a written justification prior to issuing a no-bid contract or deciding not to request proposals from potential bidders. According to internal documents, CSU officials have acknowledged violating that rule. On Jan. 28, 2008, procurement director Tom Roberts acknowledged in a CSU form that an error had been made in not providing a written justification for the December 2005 contract. He then gave a retroactive justification for... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Obituaries for Sunday, August 10, 2008 Aug 10, 2008
Published - Sunday, August 10, 2008. Blanche A. Kulas TREMPEALEAU, Wis. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Embarcadero's 'Urban Trees' take root Aug 4, 2008
Not far from Riggs' work, Tiffany Huang, 19, of Fullerton, was admiring Stairway to Heaven by Tom Roberts, a spiral staircase built from sheet metal plates that change color as the temperature shifts. It's amazing, Huang said. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Painting's theft carefully disguised Jul 4, 2008
Gone ; the work by Tom Roberts ... The 1928 oil on canvas by Tom Roberts, Road Near The Goulburn River, might have been missing since late April, but its disappearance was noticed only on June 19 after a routine audit of the collection ... Gone … the work by Tom Roberts. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Tom Roberts work stolen from ANU Jul 4, 2008
A regular audit by the university found a 1928 work by impressionist Tom Roberts, Road Near the Goulburn River, had gone missing from a function room on campus. Acting vice-chancellor Lawrence Cram yesterday said the last known sighting of the oil painting, valued at $25,000, was two months ago. (Australian IT)
$25,000 painting stolen Jul 3, 2008
Road near the Goulburn River by Tom Roberts. A $25,000 oil painting by the renowned Australian artist Tom Roberts has been stolen from The Australian National University. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A shonky easel empire Jun 29, 2008
June 28, 2008 12:49am AEST. ONE afternoon in October 2005, Stephen Nall came face to face with a fake. (The Australian)
Millworkers reunite Jun 15, 2008
On Saturday, the current owner of the mill building, Tom Roberts, and a major tenant, the co-op grocer Chatham Marketplace, invited the workers back for a reunion, including lunch and a tour of the parts of the shopping-center-sized building that have yet to be turned into offices or retail space. The mill, built in 1925 and later expanded, specialized in cloth labels. (News & Observer)
Early fur trade is focus of program May 18, 2008
Living history re-enactor and educator Tom Roberts will explore how the fur trade developed from the colonies into the new territories of the United States at the Tuesday Twilight Talk: Establishment of the Early Fur Trade in the West at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, at the Sioux City Public Museum, 2901 Jackson St.. The 45-minute presentation will include a demonstration of the gear and techniques used by early fur traders to survive and seek their fortunes in the untamed land. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Pro Hart's art collection sold Apr 17, 2008
" Some of the pieces included in the auction had not been on the market for more than 30 years. Senior art expert Tony Preston, from Deutscher and Hackett said the auction was the biggest selection of fine art to appear on the market in 2008 and had generated a lot of interest. The most coveted being sold was the Tom Roberts piece, Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong), which sold for $312,000. The John Perceval work, Lime Quarry, Lilydale, was also sold for $312,000. Other works from Pro... (Daily Telegraph)
Thin on the ground Mar 21, 2008
The other point of interest is to see landscapes by Australian artists such as John Glover, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Fred McCubbin alongside those of their internationally celebrated peers ... Even the obvious experiment of putting Tom Roberts's Allegro Con Brio: Bourke Street West alongside Camille Pissarro's view of the Boulevard Montmartre, from the National Gallery of Victoria, has a slightly lacklustre feeling. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Unsung heroes of fine art get belated recognition Feb 4, 2008
The Tom Roberts painting Penelope, framed by his wife, Lillie Williamson, in 1919 ... Fifty-five names from Europe and Australia include just one woman: Lillie Williamson, "a neglected figure", who was a respected framer in London and is represented by a delicate Art Nouveau frame on a portrait by her husband, the Australian artist Tom Roberts ... The Tom Roberts painting Penelope. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Monet, Turner a money churner Feb 1, 2008
Australian artists will include Eugene Von Guerard, John Glover, Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. The gallery's director, Ron Radford, described the show as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see works of art that had never been seen together in Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Harmonic convergence coming Uptown Jan 20, 2008
An interesting pairing of musical styles gets matched with an interesting venue to play in Friday, with a performance by piano and clarinet duo Tom Roberts and Susanne Ortner at an art studio Uptown. Sculptor James Simon is opening up his studio -- which also hosts the Gist Street Reading Series -- for the duo, who play a fusion of the Jewish folk music klezmer and Harlem stride, an early form of jazz piano. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
What lies beneath Dec 30, 2007
MILLIONS of dollars in artworks, including paintings by Australian greats Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Brett Whiteley, are buried in the basement of the state's premier gallery. Most of the more than 27,000 artworks have not been seen by the public in decades. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A Salute To Sydney Dec 3, 2007
Like artists of the past, such as Tom Roberts, John Longstaff and George Lambert, Olsen was enjoying the electrical charge that surges through an Australian when he returns home after a long absence. Forty-eight years later this may all seem like water under the bridge but in A Salute To Sydney, a show at his son's gallery that celebrates the artist's 80th birthday, Olsen has returned to the scene of past glories. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Spotted in Kensington: an important Rover Oct 27, 2007
Most are landscapes, some with hints of Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts and Ethel Carrick Fox - all of whom would have been among her contemporaries - as well as Long.. A bit further afield, at the Courtauld Institute in London, is a brilliant show of nudes by the English artist Walter Sickert (1860-1942). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Matters of Faith Oct 21, 2007
DINNER, ORGAN CONCERT: Enjoy a free wild-game dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church, 1100 W. 10th Ave. Tom Roberts, a former Alaska state trooper and big game guide, will speak. Carolyn Hamlin will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26. (Anchorage Daily News)
In brief: Matters of Faith Oct 14, 2007
DINNER, ORGAN CONCERT: Enjoy a free wild-game dinner from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at First Baptist Church, 1100 W. 10th Ave. Tom Roberts, a former Alaska state trooper and big game guide, will speak. Carolyn Hamlin will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26. (Anchorage Daily News)
First visions of war's ruin, before the brush Oct 11, 2007
Because he was too old for military service he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as an orderly in south London, working alongside fellow Australian artists such as Tom Roberts, A. Henry Fullwood and George Coates until he was discharged as medically unfit. But Streeton lobbied the Australian Government to establish a war art scheme, similar to the one set up by the Canadians, who had offered him a commission - which he rejected for patriotic reasons. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Why every week is Bush Week Sep 29, 2007
As the 19th century closed and Australia approached nationhood, the legend was furiously romanticised and seared into the minds of urban residents by writers such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson and artists such as Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin. "Australians generally became actively conscious of the distinctive "bush" ethos and of its value as an expression and symbol of nationalism," Ward said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Faberge and other things fabulous Sep 22, 2007
Mackennal, born in Melbourne in 1863, the son of a sculptor and architectural modeller, studied briefly at the Royal Academy in London in 1883 - where he shared a flat with the artist Tom Roberts. In Paris, he was introduced to Auguste Rodin by another expat artist, John Peter Russell. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Arts Guide: Exhibits around the world Jun 27, 2007
With 240 works and a focus on Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Streeton and Jane Sutherland, the show looks at the development of plein-air painting in Australia in the years 1883-1897. -- www. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
How Streeton's secret love made its mark Jun 13, 2007
Mr Varcoe-Cocks said Streeton and fellow Heidelberg School artists Tom Roberts, Charles Condor and Frederick McCubbin had an artist friend, Lucy Walker, whose younger sister was called Florry. Apart from the clues he left in Spring, Streeton mentioned Florry in letters. (The Australian)
Hidden messages reveal artist's love Jun 13, 2007
Mr Varcoe-Cocks said the gallery identified Florry by investigating a woman called Lucy Walker, an artistic colleague of Streeton's and artist Tom Roberts. She turned out to be Florry Walker's older sister. (NEWS.com.au)
Philanthropist's trust halts plan to share masterpiece Jun 7, 2007
6 million Tom Roberts masterpiece has been halted by the Supreme Court because of a trust deed dating back to the reign of King George V.. The 1894 painting, Mosman's Bay, was one of 1000 works donated by the philanthropist and collector Howard Hinton in the 1930s and '40s to the "Teachers' Training College of His Majesty at Armidale" after the collector fell out with the Art Gallery of NSW.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Councillor criticises painting sale meeting plan May 22, 2007
An Armidale Dumaresq councillor, in northern NSW, has criticised plans to hold a special council meeting tomorrow to consider the half sale of the Tom Roberts painting Mossman's Bay. The Supreme Court will today hear the council's application to alter the deed of trust governing the Hinton Collection that houses the painting, to pave the way for the half sale to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Arts)
Council's bid to sell prized art fails May 22, 2007
The NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by Armidale Dumaresq Council, in the state's north, to sell half of the 1894 work Mosman's Bay by Australian artist Tom Roberts to the Art Gallery of NSW.. The sale was intended to pay off half a million dollars in debts. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
A story told in the fine print Apr 14, 2007
But the market also provided a cruel test of an image, as Tom Roberts found out when he hoped to make a fortune by peddling copies of his big picture of the opening of the first parliament. Patriotic feeling was not strong enough to convince buyers they needed a reproduction of this leaden assembly of official faces. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Drawn in by a rural myth Mar 31, 2007
Tom Roberts' Shearing the rams, 1890 ... Australia was already moving on when Tom Roberts' iconic painting etched itself onto the national psyche, writes David Hansen ... No, I suspect that for the quintessential Australian picture we have to go further back, beyond modernism, beyond Federation, to the self-consciously nationalist Australian impressionist paintings of the 1890s and particularly to Tom Roberts' Shearing the rams. (The Age)
Moving record of nation's first glimpse at itself Mar 31, 2007
Before Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton came along, Australian colonial art, though scattered with maverick wonders, had failed to get to grips with this land ... It is filled with some of Australia's most beloved cultural treasures, including Tom Roberts's Bailed Up, A Break Away. (The Australian)
History of a nation on paper Mar 27, 2007
The list of artists represented is a who's who of Australian art over two centuries - among them John Lewin, Conrad Martens, Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Norman Lindsay, Tom Roberts, John Brack and John Olsen. And the subject matter is similarly eclectic, from exquisite colonial vistas, portraits, fauna and flora to modern political posters by Redback Graphix. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Around your town Mar 20, 2007
Tom Roberts will talk about solar energy and biodiesel fuel. He will demonstrate the process of extracting fuel from discarded cooking oil. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Named and shamed Dec 30, 2006
As well as the latest dodgy works we've had four not-quite-right Nolans, a tacky Tom Roberts and an egregious Emanuel Phillips Fox. There have even been remonstrations over a brace of Rover Thomases. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Led up garden path for a brush with bohemian greatness Dec 13, 2006
Here, artists such as Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts lived, worked, partied and played cricket in idyllic, weekender surroundings. Belatedly, perhaps, the role of the artists' camps will be commemorated early next year with the opening of a cliff-top path from which visitors can visit the sites and read interpretative boards. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Bush girl to spice up sale Oct 28, 2006
It dates from 1888, when Conder visited Melbourne and teamed with Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin to form the Heidelberg School artists - so named because they did much of their work outdoors in semi-rural Heidelberg and Eaglemont. They also painted Sydney's harbour and environs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Oak Tree Horse Racing Charts Sep 28, 2006
Bred by David Abrams & Tom Roberts (CA). Trainer: Barry Abrams. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
'Shearing the Rams' being restored Sep 27, 2006
The National Gallery of Victoria is restoring one of Australia's most well known paintings - Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts. It was painted near Corowa between 1888 and 1890. (ABC News Online, Australia)
After 40 years of giving, Max part of gallery's family Aug 23, 2006
"I have never set out to leave a great mark, I just took great joy in helping," Mr Carter said yesterday, surrounded by the art of Frederick McCubbin, Eugene von Guerard, Tom Roberts and Conrad Martens. "In 125 years, 90 per cent of the collection has been given so all I am doing is following a tradition of other people. I am not doing anything unusual.". (The Australian)
Council to seek court permission to sell half share of painting Jun 27, 2006
The controversial proposition to sell a half share of Tom Roberts' Mosman Bay to the Art Gallery of New South Wales will raise about $1. 5 million for the museum. (ABC News Online, Australia)
Pickwick Park lands new park Jun 22, 2006
Phase one of the park will involve fencing and landscaping the area, adding access entries to the park, and adding two play areas for 2- to 5-year-olds and 5- to 12-year-olds, said Tom Roberts, senior project manager for Applied Technology and Management, the leading design company for the project. Phase two will include lighting in the parking area, architectural entryways welcoming guests, more landscaping, sidewalks, two picnic pavilions with grills, and a one-of-a-kind fitness trail for... (Florida Times-Union)
Council looks to joint ownership of painting Jun 20, 2006
It has given in-principle support to the sale of a half share of Tom Roberts' Mosman Bay to the Art Gallery of New South Wales for about $2 million. The final decision is expected to be made at council's meeting on Monday night, when representatives from the Friends of the old Teachers College, who have organised a petition against the sale, will address council. (ABC News Online, Australia)
Lloyd Webber sells Geelong masterpiece May 12, 2006
Some of Australia's best known artists, Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts and Rupert Bunny were among his early students. AAP. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Roberts' artworks goes on show in Inverell Apr 21, 2006
Historic artworks worth millions of dollars will be unveiled tonight at the official opening of Inverell's Tom Roberts Festival in northern New South Wales. Included with be 14 works by the Australian Master, some of which were painted in the Inverell district. (ABC News Online, Australia)
