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Reed, John, 1901-1981


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    • Reed, John Harford, 1901-1981

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    • Birth Date

        1901-12-10

    • Death Date

        1981-12-05

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    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Pinewood Preparatory School (Farnborough, Hampshire, England)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1926
        • Affiliation End: 1935
        • Organization: Blake & Riggall (Firm)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1943
        • Affiliation End: 1946
        • Organization: Reed & Harris (Firm)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1958
        • Affiliation End: 1965
        • Organization: Museum of Modern Art (and Design) of Australia

    • Birth Place

        Tasmania

    • Birth Place

        Logan (Tas.)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      (lcsh) art

      (lcsh) law

      (lcsh) publishers and publishing


    • Occupation

      (lcsh) lawyers

      (lcsh) art patrons

      (lcsh) publishers and publishing

      (lcsh) art museum directors

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      • Sources

        • found: Letters of John Reed, 2001:preface (died 5 Dec. 1981) page 35 (born 10 Dec. 1901, Tasmania)
        • found: Australian dictionary of biography, viewed online October 12, 2023(John Harford Reed; solicitor, publisher and art patron; born on 10 December 1901 at Logan, Evandale, Tasmania; grew up in the family homes in Logan (Tas.) and Mount Pleasant (Tas.); sent to Pinewood Preparatory School, Farnborough, England); attended Cheltenham College (Cheltenham, England); returned to Australia at the outbreak of WWI; returned to England to read arts and law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, graduating in 1924 (BA., LL.B.); further studies at the University of Melbourne graduating in 1926 (LL.B.); worked for the law firm of Blake & Riggall 1926-1935; setting up private practice in Melbourne; active in the formation of the Contemporary Art Society; abandoned his law practice in 1943 and with the Adelaide-based poet Max Harris established Reed & Harris (1943-1946) to publish the art and literary magazine Angry Penguins, begun by Harris in 1940 at the University of Adelaide; the firm also published a number of radical books; 1944, the year of the Ern Malley hoax perpetrated by Harold Stewart and James McAuley, the partners included Sunday Reed, John Reed's wife, and Sidney Nolan; With Max Harris and Barrett Reid, they launched a new publishing venture, Ern Malley's Journal (1952-1955); Using their own funds the Reeds transformed the Contemporary Art Society gallery in 1958 into the Museum of Modern Art (and Design) of Australia. John was its director (1958-1965) and their collection of Australian modernist art formed the core of the museum's holdings; In mid-1980 the Reeds and sold a large part of their estate Heide (Heidelberg (Vic.) and the bulk of their art collection to the Victorian government to form the nucleus of a new public art gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art; travelled in Europe especially France to meet artists; died December 5, 1981 at Heide in Tasmania)

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        • 2002-09-05: new
        • 2023-10-31: revised

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