The Johannesburg Art Scene from the 60's to the 90's
Lawrence Adler Gallery - Adler Fielding Galleries
History and List of Exhibitions
Personal Notes on Maj. Aubrey Fielding
As from the end of 1957, the Lawrence Adler Galleries, later to be known as the Adler Fielding Galleries, were a very important and exciting art gallery on the Johannesburg scene.
This historical survey lists major exhibitions held at both galleries and includes shows at the latter's new venue, until the end of 1968.
For research purposes, we have highlighted the name of black artists, to show that a few were already included by leading galleries as from the early 60's.
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Lawrence Adler Galleries started business as an art lending library on the 4th floor of Pinn's Buildings, Kruis & Market Streets, Johannesburg, during 1955.
Lawrence Adler Gallery - lending Library - ill. Jewish Affairs March 1955 p.44
By 1957, it started a regular exhibition programme, as follows:.
1957
07/11
GORDON
VORSTER
1958
03/02
MERVYN EVANS
13/05
AFRICANA
EXHIBITION
27/05
AUBREY FIELDING
17/06
ALVA
15/07
4 GREAT NAMES (PICASSO/SOULAGES/FRIEDLANDER/BRAUND)
12/08
FRANK SPEARS
26/08
JOHN COPLANS
30/09
AMERICAN GRAPHIC ART
26/11
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS
1959
10/03 MAY
HILLHOUSE
24/03
ALFRED KRENZ
14/04
ELEANOR ESMONDE-WHITE
28/04
18th-19th Cent. JAPANESE PRINTS
12/05
ITALIAN/FRENCH/GERMAN GRAPHIC ART
26/05
GIUSEPPE CATTANEO
09/06
ZOLTAN BORBEREKI & ELIZABETH SEBOK
30/07
EVA FISCHER
13/08
FRENCH GRAPHIC ART
27/08
LIONEL ABRAMS
27/08
GEORGE BOYS
10/09
GORDON VORSTER
??/09
FRANK SPEARS
22/10
JEAN WELZ
04/11
FRANK ROSEN
19/11
AUCTION SALE
23/02 POLISH
GRAPHIC ART
??/03
MASCHA BRAUNGER
22/03
JAN DINGEMANS
22/03
20th Cent. ENGLISH PAINTINGS
10/05
JAPANESE PRINTS (Collection DR S B SACHS)
16/05
18TH-19TH CENT. JAPANESE PRINTS AND MODERN JAPANESE PRINTS
24/05
PATRICIA MCALLISTER
07/06
OSKAR H SCHROEDER
??/07
2ND ARTISTS OF FAME & PROMISE 1960
02/08
DORELLE
16/08
BIJOU PAINTINGS
30/08
ALFRED KRENZ
13/09
INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC ART
20/09
EDOARDO VILLA (exhibition held at JOUBERT PARK, Johannesburg)
27/09
SIDNEY GOLDBLATT
??/10
FRANK SPEARS
25/10
BLAZENKA BAIKOW
08/11
GIUSEPPE CATTANEO
22/11
WALTER BATTISS
15/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS EXHIBITION
1961
28/02 HANNS
L KATZ (MEMORIAL EXHIBITION)
14/03
LESLEY COPE
04/04
CHRISTO COETZEE
18/04
CECIL HIGGS
02/05
MASCHA BRAUNGER
02/05
LEON LEVSON (photographs)
30/05
ELEANOR ESMONDE-WHITE
14/06
BIJOU PAINTINGS
18/07
3RD ARTISTS OF FAME & PROMISE 1961
08/08
LIONEL ABRAMS
22/08
CECILY SASH
06/09
BRITISH GRAPHIC ART
06/09
LASCAUX CAVE PAINTINGS - reproductions
17/10
FRANK SPEARS (closing gallery show)
The gallery, now named Adler Fielding Galleries, moved to the new building "Walbrook", at the corner of von Brandis & Commissioner Street, Johannesburg.
Opening exhibition of Adler Fielding Galleries' new premises designed by Donald Turgell, with solo show by Irma Stern
1961
01/11 IRMA
STERN (opening gallery exhibition)
14/11
SIDNEY GOLDBLATT
28/11
GORDON VORSTER
14/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS EXHIBITION
1962
07/02 ALISON
ROUX
20/02
EDOARDO VILLA
08/03
TOWNSHIP LIFE (Louis MAQHUBELA, Gerard SEKOTO, Lucas
SITHOLE)
20/03
EDIN CURRIE-WOOD
17/04
EONE DE WET
01/05
EASTER EXHIBITION
15/05
PAINTINGS FOR CHILDREN
28/05
ARMANDO BALDINELLI
12/06
GEORGE ENSLIN
09/07
ARTISTS OF FAME & PROMISE 1962
31/07
DOUGLAS PORTWAY
14/08
SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTERS PAST AND PRESENT 1818 - 1962
28/08
300 PRINTS FROM THE 16TH TO 20TH CENTURY
11/09
SIDNEY GOLDBLATT
24/09
GREGOIRE BOONZAIER
09/10
FLOWER SHOW
23/10
SOLLY DISNER
06/11
EUGEN JUSSEL
20/11
FRANK SPEARS
04/12
NEIL SACK
04/12
JURGEN SCHADEBERG & FRANK FISCHBECK
20/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS EXHIBITION
1963
05/02 RHODA
LAZARUS-TRAUB + ISRAEL TRAUB
19/02
Ephraim NGATANE
05/03
BRITISH GRAPHIC ART 1963
19/03
JOAN OSBORN
02/04
EASTER EXHIBITION
16/04
PRANAS DOMSAITIS
30/04
John HLATYWAYO
14/05
SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTERS PAST AND PRESENT 1818 - 1963
04/06
BLUMÉ AMOILS
18/06
AFRICAN SCULPTURES from the NYARUTSETSO SCHOOL,
Rhodesia
16/07
ARTISTS OF FAME AND PROMISE 1963
30/07
ALFRED KRENZ
13/08
CARAL PHARO - HAMILTON (Batiks)
13/08 ELSE
WONGTSCHOWSKI (Jewellery)
27/08
24 WOMEN ARTISTS
10/09
IRMA STERN
24/09
AILEEN LIPKIN
22/10
FRANK SPEARS
28/10
SA INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS - challenge
exhibition
06/11
HORSES
20/11
WIM BLOM
04/12
CONTEMPORARY FRENCH PAINTING
17/12
Peter MAGUBANE ("My
People" - photographs)
17/12 THE YEAR'S FINDINGS
1964
28/01
ADELE
WHITE
13/02
EDIN CURRIE-WOOD
25/02
ALICE COCKETT
10/03
EASTER EXHIBITION
24/03
WILL OGILVIE
14/04
18th & 19th Cent. JAPANESE PRINTS
28/04
SOUTH AFRICAN PAINTERS PAST AND PRESENT
18/05
ANN LINDSELL-STEWART
02/06
Ephraim NGATANE
16/06
JO RORICH
30/06
24TH ANNUAL AMERICAN NEWSPAPER NATIONAL SNAPSHOTS AWARDS
14/07
ARTISTS OF FAME & PROMISE 1964
11/08
WALTER BATTISS
11/08
PIDIE WILSON
25/08
SIDNEY GOLDBLATT
28/08
PIERNEEF FESTIVAL (jointly with EGON GUENTHER GALLERY, over two venues)
01/09
ADVERTISING CLUB OF SA - charity show
08/09
PETER NEL
14/09
ASAF BERG
22/09
RONALD MYLCHREEST
06/10
BILL AINSLIE
12/10
Gladys
MGUDLANDLU
20/10
FRANS CLAERHOUT
27/10
JEFF HUNTLY
03/11
LIONEL ABRAMS
17/11
FRANK SPEARS
01/12
FRANCIS N SOUZA
15/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS
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Aubrey Fielding in August,
1965, organiser of the Witwatersrand Art Festival Exhibition at the
Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg,
1965
21/01 JENNIFER
DICKSON
26/01
PEARL COHEN
09/02
FOUR AFRICAN ARTISTS (Louis MAQHUBELA, Lucas
SITHOLE, Ephraim NGATANE, Andrew MOTJUOADI)
23/02
MAISIE LIEBMAN
24/02
CECIL BEATON
09/03
EASTER EXHIBITION
23/03
EDOARDO VILLA
07/04
GROUP SHOW (9 ARTISTS)
20/04
TREVOR COLEMAN
04/05
PETER LAMB (MEMORIAL EXHIBITION)
19/05
FRENCH CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
01/06
CLAUDE VENARD
15/06
BETTINA & NANDO
29/06
FRENCH CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
20/07
ARTISTS OF FAME & PROMISE 1965
03/08
DIRK MEERKOTTER
17/08
WALTER RICHARD SICKERT
31/08
S A PAINTERS PAST AND PRESENT
14/09
RHONA STERN
28/09
SYDNEY HARPLEY
07/10 TONY VAN NOORT
12/10
FRANK SPEARS
26/10
WIM BLOM
09/11
LEONARD GROSSET
10/11
ADVERTISING CLUB OF SA - charity show
23/11
KENNETH ROBINSON
14/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS
1966
18/01 ADELE
WHITE
01/02
Ephraim NGATANE
15/02
SOUTH AFRICAN PIONEERS OF PAINTING
15/02
ZAKKIE ELOFF
01/03
EBEN LEIBBRANDT
15/03
PRANAS DOMSAITIS (MEMORIAL EXHIBITION)
29/03
EASTER EXHIBITION
13/04
Lucas SITHOLE
13/04
ADRIAN HILL
26/04
BIG NAMES OF TOMORROW
04/05
CHARITY AUCTION (AFRICAN SELF HELP ASS.)
10/05
HANNATJIE VAN DER WAT
24/05
JUNE TE WATER
07/06
ANN LINDSELL-STEWART
21/06
BILL AINSLIE
21/06
BEN ARNOLD
19/07
ARTISTS OF FAME & PROMISE 1966
02/08
ANNA VORSTER
16/08
AWARD WINNERS
30/08
LIONEL ABRAMS
30/08
JOHN HERITAGE
13/09
Barry DE VILLIERS,
Ben MACALA, Cousin WALAZA
27/09
SIDNEY GOLDBLATT
28/09
1ST ART AUCTION SALE
11/10
FRANK SPEARS
25/10
TRADITIONAL ZAMBIAN SCULPTURE
08/11
13TH TRANSVAAL ACADEMY
22/11
ELSA MARSCHALL
23/11
2ND ART AUCTION SALE
06/12
"DIE SESTIGERS": BISSEKER, HEYNIKE, LOUW, MYLCHREEST, VAN RENSBURG,
VENTER
20/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS
1967
07/02 THE
EVERARD GROUP
01/03
3RD ART AUCTION SALE
07/03
NEVILLE LEWIS
28/03
Louis MAQHUBELA
08/04
MAKE-ME-AN-OFFER AUCTION
18/04
10 TOP WOMEN PAINTERS OF SA
08/05
Durant SIHLALI
09/05
LANDSCAPE PAINTERS OF SA - PAST AND PRESENT
23/05
PEARL COHEN
06/06
MODERN BENIN BRONZES
13/06
JAN HEYNIKE
04/07
THE STILL LIFE AS AN ARTISTIC SUBJECT
02/08
KEVIN ATKINSON
12/09
SCULPTURE.SA 1900 - 1967
03/10
ANN LINDSELL-STEWART
17/10
LEON DE BLIQUY
17/10
ASHER AMID
07/11
SOUTH AFRICAN GRAPHIC ART
07/11
SIDNEY BECK
??/12
THE YEAR'S FINDINGS
??/?? Hargreaves NTUKWANA
The Adler Fielding Galleries ceased to be. As from 18.02.1968, the gallery was now carried on under a new management, including Herbert Prins, Zandberg Jansen, Ken Arber and Diana Norwood Young. It was named "The Gallery" for short. However, this venture did not last long; the gallery's assets were disposed of by public auction end of August, 1969.
Maj. Aubrey Fielding, who had had a most interesting life, turned again to painting, exhibiting his own works occasionally in Johannesburg at other venues. He died in 1981.
The above lists were compiled by Fernand F. Haenggi in January, 1993, from selected data taken from the files of:
LAWRENCE ADLER
ADLER FIELDING GALLERIES (BOOK II) (MRS M
PARTRIDGE)
WHIPPMAN'S GALLERY (ESTHER ABRAMS)
GALLERY 101 (INCOMPLETE)
GALLERY 21
RICHARD CHEALES
ELZA MILES
ZOLTAN BORBEREKI
FRED SCHIMMEL
MICHAELIS ART LIBRARY
Additional information on Maj. Aubrey Fielding was uploaded in March, 2009. Should you be in possession of additional information or photographs, or needing further details, in particular regarding the various group exhibitions which also included black artists, please contact us at pelmama.thf@gmail.com!
IMPORTANT!
To find more information about the afore-listed exhibitions or artists, we invite you to go to
http://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/
which website will be updated from time to time.
Updated 9th June, 2016
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