OBITUARY / Derek Fuller Wrigley, OAM, February 16, 1924, Oldham, Lancashire – June 22, 2021, Canberra.
MASTER designer Derek Wrigley, who
died on June 22 in Canberra left an extraordinary legacy in Canberra, Australia and arguably the world.
Derek came to Australia in 1947. He worked for a short time with a firm of architects in Sydney and then became a lecturer in architecture at Sydney Technical College & University of Technology (now the University of New South Wales).
In 1956 he was the co-founder, with Fred Ward, of the Industrial Design Council of Australia, (IDCA) and was the first honorary secretary. He was also the chair of the IDCA Education Committee for the first three years. Derek was passionate about the importance of design and art in education and right until the end was writing about this importance.
Thu, 03/04/2021 - 12:23pm meganj JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY (1738-1815), Mrs. John Scollay (Mercy Greenleaf), 1763. Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 28 in. Collection of Shelburne Museum, purchased with funds from Judith and James Pizzagalli, Marna and Charles Davis, Christine and Robert Stiller, and Heidi Drymer and Peter Graham.
Image courtesy Shelburne Museum
SHELBURNE Shelburne Museum has acquired a portrait by John Singleton Copley entitled “Mrs. John Scollay (Mercy Greenleaf),” a pendant painting to the portrait in the museum’s permanent collection, “Mr. John Scollay,” reuniting the long-separated portraits of wife and husband, Shelburne Museum Director Thomas Denenberg announced.
John Scollay, a chairman of the Boston Board of Selectmen and member of the Sons of Liberty, commissioned Copley (1738-1815), the preeminent portraiture artist in the American colonies, for this portrait of his wife as a pendant to his own portrait. Completed in 1763,