Complete Collection

The Works

The museum's permanent collection, hung as four rooms. Every work on paper — pencil and charcoal, coloured pencil, watercolour and pastel — is gathered together in Room I, with the paintings hung by subject in Rooms II and III and the family archive discoveries in Room IV. Records will be refined as the family catalogue and publications are matched.

81 works across 4 rooms

Room I

Works on Paper

The drawing room. Pencil and charcoal studies, coloured pencil, watercolour and pastel are kept together here, as they are stored in the family's portfolios — the working half of Tladi's output, and the place a visitor to a real gallery would find it.

Works on paper18

*Gum Tree*
charcoal and pastel on paper, 29 × 23 cm

*Village Street Scene*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Township Scene*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Landscape with Herdboys*
signed · pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Rural Homestead with Field of Crops*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Landscape with Farmhouse*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Johannesburg Library*
signed and dated 1938 · pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Township from Sophiatown*
signed · pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Hydrangea Flower*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Stem of Flowering Stocks*
pencil on paper, 29 × 23 cm

*Head of a Young Boy*
unsigned · pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

Profile Portrait
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Portrait of Woman with Cap*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Portrait of Woman with Hat*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Portrait of Baby*
pencil on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Figure study*
Undated · work on paper · family archive · identification in progress

*Pencil drawing*
Undated · work on paper · family archive · identification in progress

Coloured pencil12

*Landscape with Cliffs*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Landscape with Pair of Aloes*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Landscape with Aloes and Stream*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Rural Village*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Painted Hut and Courtyard*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Rural Domestic Scene*
coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Head of a Lion*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 23,5 × 22,5 cm

*Lioness with Kill*
coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Cow and Calf*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Goat Standing on Jetty*
coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Wild Cat*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 22 × 34 cm

*Still Life with Vase of Tulips*
signed · coloured pencil on card, 34 × 22 cm

Watercolours10

*Landscape with Group of Trees*
watercolour on paper, 29 × 23 cm

*Landscape with Church and Clouds*
watercolour on paper, 9,5 × 15 cm

*Landscape with Red-roofed Farmhouse*
watercolour on paper, 13 × 22,5 cm

*Landscape with Rain Clouds*
watercolour on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Landscape with Hills*
watercolour on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Landscape with Farmhouse and Fields*
watercolour on card, 20 × 18 cm

*Landscape*
watercolour on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Still Life with Chrysanthemum*
watercolour on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Still Life with Yellow Flowers*
watercolour on paper, 23 × 29 cm

*Still Life with Vase of Roses*
watercolour on paper, 23 × 29 cm

Pastels1

*Breedes River, Worcester, Cape*
signed and dated 1930 · pastel on paper, glazed, 26 × 30,5 cm

Room II

The Land: Mountains, Rivers and Highveld

The landscape room. The Magaliesberg, the Drakensberg, Driefontein and the Highveld weather Tladi watched from boyhood — oil on board, panel, Masonite and canvas.

Paintings17

*The Magaliesberg Mountains*
signed · oil on Bristol board, 47 × 73,5 cm

*Landscape – Wood Fetcher*
signed · oil on wood panel, 30 × 31 cm

*Winter – Trees, Driefontein*
signed · oil on board, 25 × 26 cm

*Blue Gum Trees and Water*
signed · oil on wood panel, 34,5 × 24,5 cm

*Spring (Driefontein)*
signed · oil on artist's board, 17 × 25 cm

*Weeping Tree*
signed · oil on artist's board, 24,5 × 15 cm

*Flowering Tree*
signed · oil on cardboard, 25,5 × 31,5 cm

*Landscape with Mountain*
signed · oil on cardboard, 24,5 × 31,5 cm

*Landscape – The Drakensberg*
signed · oil on Masonite, 37,5 × 47 cm

*Rocky Outcrop*
oil on wood panel, 34,5 × 42 cm

*Trees in a Landscape*
signed · oil on wood panel, 24,5 × 17 cm

*Mountain Landscape*
signed · oil on wood panel, 34 × 46 cm

*Trees*
oil on canvas board, 25,5 × 18 cm

*Country Road*
signed · oil on wood panel, 26 × 25,5 cm

*Untitled (Highveld rainstorm landscape)*
Undated · oil · Tladi family estate

*Morning at Magaliesberg Mountains*
Undated · oil · family estate

*Manako, Sekhukhuneland*
Early 1930s · oil · collection unlocated

Room III

Homes, Gardens and Village Scenes

Lokshoek, Kensington B, farmyards, huts and towns: the houses and gardens in which Tladi lived and worked, and the domestic world he made for his family.

Paintings7

*The House in Kensington B*
signed · oil on Masonite, 37,5 × 77 cm

*Lokshoek, Johannesburg, Front Façade*
signed, c. 1920s · oil on canvas, 25 × 35 cm

*Cherry Tree and Old Carriage House at Lokshoek*
signed · oil on artist's board, 25 × 25,5 cm

*Three Huts*
signed · oil on board, 20 × 26 cm

*Near the Mill, Kroonstad*
oil · wartime work, Kroonstad

*Untitled (House with blossoming tree)*
Undated · oil · Tladi family estate

*Lokshoek, Johannesburg*
c. 1927 · oil on canvas · Read–Lloyd family collection

Room IV

Family Archive Discoveries

Works photographed in the family archive and shown as they were found. Titles, media and dimensions will be confirmed as the family catalogue and published sources are matched.

Family archive discoveries16

*Yellow flowering tree*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Interior or garden scene*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Landscape with water*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Flowering landscape*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Garden and house*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Figural landscape*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Landscape with house*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Landscape with red hills*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Mountain landscape (mounted work)*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Landscape with tree*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Blossoming tree*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Blue landscape*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Landscape with pink hills*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Still life with flowers*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

*Landscape with mountains*
Undated · painting photographed in family archive · identification in progress

Collection policy

Every artwork is held here as a single, permanent record. It may also appear in a story about Lobethal, an exhibition or a family discovery, but it never disappears from this catalogue.