Sidney Nolan’s Antarctic Paintings on Display at the Polar Museum in Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE.- Striking paintings by Sir Sidney Nolan are being shown at a new exhibition in Cambridge. The special exhibition at the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute runs from 30 September to 18 December 2010. Only a few of Nolan’s Antarctic works remain in Britain. They are part of a series painted in 1964 after Nolan visited the Antarctic as a guest of the US Navy during Operation ‘Deep Freeze’. The majority of the series is held in [...]

“Herbert G. Ponting: The Conquest of the South Pole” at Flo Peters Gallery

HAMBURG.- With the exhibition Herbert G. Ponting: The Conquest of the South Pole the Flo Peters Gallery presents photographs of historic significance and incomparable suspense. In 1910 Captain Robert Falcon Scott set sail under the British Flag aboard the research ship Terra Nova aiming to be the first man to conquest the South Pole. Also part of the crew was a photographer and cameraman by the name of Herbert G. Ponting. With his photographs of the expedition and its participants [...]

Photographic Exhibition Marks Centenary of Scott’s Voyage to South Pole

LONDON.- Marking the centenary of Scott’s epic voyage to the South Pole, the Getty Images Gallery, in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, is presenting a new photographic exhibition which will feature the work of Herbert Ponting, the photographer who accompanied the expedition. “The Journey South” will run from 4th February until 6th March. H,G Ponting, Captain Scott+s Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1912, 7th February, 1911, A sledging party enjoy a meal of Colman’s Corn Flour, while briefly stopping [...]