1925-1938 |
| 1925 | |
Returns to Brisbane |
| 1926 | |
Sculpts Tattersall’s Club frieze, Brisbane, the first of many major commissions |
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Elected life member of the Queenland Art Society |
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Begins exhibiting with the Society of Artists, Sydney |
| 1927 | |
Appointed Vice-President of the (now) Royal Queensland Art Society (until 1930) |
| 1929 | |
Appointed Honorary Organising Secretary of the Queensland Art Fund |
| 1930 | |
Sells A young Australian to the National Gallery of New South Wales, the first of many works to be acquired by an art museum |
| 1931 | |
Becomes member of Queensland National Art Gallery’s Art Advisory Committee (until 1937) |
| 1935 | |
Secures John Darnell Bequest and establishes Queensland’s first art reference library |
| 1937 | |
Becomes foundation member of Australian Academy of Art, Canberra |
| 1938 | |
Receives Society of Artists Medal |
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Travels to Europe and North America |
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