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This large well considered retrospective survey of Robert Jacks’ work sadly became a memorial exhibition as it opened two months after his death.

The Art in Focus series of one-room exhibitions includes displays that provide a context for one or more related works from the gallery’s collection.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter Gallery website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/site/upcomingexh.html

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Kornenberg, Simeon and Cooper, Tracy, Robert Jacks: reasons to be cheerful. Bendigo, Vic: Bendigo Art Gallery, c2002
ISBN 0949215368

1968 was an exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia, curated by Michael Desmond and Christine Dixon. As the curators noted, it included work from 1967 to 1969 that encapsulated the spirit of those revolutionary years both in Australia, Europe and the USA.

Organised by The Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne. Toured to Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
and AGNSW, the first critical examination of works on paper by this Australian abstract artist, comprising 130 works from 1958-1989.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert Jacks: on paper, 1958-1990. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Museum of Art, 1990
ISBN 0732500036

Organised by the University of Melbourne, Toured to Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria and AGNSW

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert Jacks: on paper, 1958-1990. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Museum of Art, 1990
ISBN 0732500036

Organised by the University of Melbourne. Toured to Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria and AGNSW. The first critical examination of works on paper by this Australian abstract artist, comprising 130 works from 1958-1989.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Warnambool Art Gallery exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert Jacks: on paper, 1958-1990. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Museum of Art, 1990
ISBN 0732500036

Dumbrell, Jacks and Majzner have produced 20 works each in this medium for this exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Zdanowicz, Irena, McCaughey, Patrick, Colour and transparency : the watercolours of Lesley Dumbrell, Robert Jacks, Victor Majzner. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1986.
ISBN 0724101144

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; Artist’s bibliography

Exhibition Catalogue:
Millar, Ronald, Robert Jacks: works in progress. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne, 1978