SON OF THE BRUSH IMAGE GALLERY
A small selection of the images appearing in the book, including some rarely seen works by my mother, Valerie Strong Olsen.
Valerie, Tim's favourite photograph of his mother. (Photo: Ken Raymond)
Tim at OLSEN Gallery, 2017 (Photo: Greg Weight)
John and Valerie on Camp Cove beach, 1968. (Photo: Robert McFarlane / Courtesy Josef Lebovic Gallery)
Celebrating John's 91st birthday, January 2019 at Catalina, Rose Bay: John, Louise, Tim and Barry Humphries
James (Tim's son) as a baby
Louise, Valerie and Tim at Pearl Beach, c. 1983 (Photo: John Lewis)
From left to right: Dom, Tim, James, Louise, Camille and John (centre, seated)
'There are lovers and there are others'
The Hungry Horse Calendar cover photograph, Windsor Street, Paddington
Valerie Strong
Louise and John in a group drawing lesson via Zoom during COVID-19 isolation, in John's studio at Hidden Lake, 2020 with John's studio assistant, Ken Redpath
Valerie with two-year-old Tim
Jane with her daughter Georgia Blake, in 2008 (Photo: Eryca Green)
John Olsen 'Louise and Tim looking at a Pike', c. 1969. Collection of Louise Olsen
Tim with Jamie Oliver (Photo: David Loftus)
Antumbra: A Summer Group Exhibition in the OLSEN Gallery main gallery space, Woollahra, December 2017-January 2018. Works included John's 'Parrots in Paradise', 2014 (right)
John in his Clarendon studio working on 'Golden Summer, Clarendon' in 1983
Upstairs stockroom at OLSEN Gallery, Sydney, 2017. Left wall: Brett Whiteley, 'Beach Polytych'
Tim at the artists' lunch at OLSEN Gallery, February 2020 in front of Louise's painting 'Changing Sea' 2019 (Photo: Kitty Callaghan)
20 October 1973: Valerie (at left) with Queen Elizabeth II, when she attended the opening of the Sydney Opera House with Prince Philip
Valerie Strong 'Roofs over Watson’s Bay I' 1965 Collection of Tim Olsen
Valerie Strong 'Roofs over Watson’s Bay II' 1965 Collection of Tim Olsen
John painting 'Love in the Kitchen' at Dunmoocchin, Victoria, 1969 (Photo: Mark Strizic)
John Olsen 'Tim looking at TV', 1969 (Collection of Tim Olsen)
John and Tim at the launch of John's book 'My Salute to Five Bells' at the Sydney Opera House, 2015
Katrina Arent, OLSEN Gallery Director, at the artists' lunch, February 2020 (Photo: Kitty Callaghan)
OLSEN Gallery at Sydney Contemporary, September 2019. Left: John Olsen 'Holiday by the Sea' 1993. Right: Jonathan Delafield Cook, 'Bull' 2019
Tim Olsen Gallery, Paddington (Tim's second gallery)
Nicholas Harding exhibition at OLSEN Gallery, August 2020 (Photo: Brett East)
Stephen Ormandy exhibition at Olsen Gruin Gallery New York
Leila Jeffreys exhibition at Olsen Gruin Gallery, Orchard Street, New York, 2017
Valerie Strong on the cover of Australian Women's Weekly, 25 July 1951
Valerie Strong, 'Afternoon Yarramalong', 1963. Newcastle Art Gallery collection, Gil Docking bequest 2018