Sedon Galleries

[8] The inaugural exhibition was Leading Australian Artists; Arthur Streeton, Walter Withers, Elioth Gruner, Norman Lindsay, R. W. Sturgess, W. D. Knox, Nora Gordon, Gwen Barringer, Carl Hampel, and M. J. MacNally,[8] and, in other shows, those emerging, including watercolourist Harold Herbert, Carlyle Jackson, Bernice Edwell and others still aged in their 20s or 30s.

Though Young in a 1929 Herald review was excited by "fashionable" British painters' "Interesting Pictures" being offered at the prices "the same as would be asked In a London gallery,"[11] Sedon more consistently promoted Australian art.

[6] Following the death of his wife Isabel at age 53 on 13 January 1928, Sedon sold their home and a large part of his collection of ornaments, statuary, pictures, crystal, and works by significant Australian impressionists.

Among guests to his home were artists John Longstaff, W. B. McInnes, Napier Waller, Dora Wilson, George Bell, and prominent members of Melbourne's medical and professional circles.

Sedon's conservatism was further demonstrated in his contributing the gallery as the venue for an exhibition to defray the costs of artists Mary Edwards' and Joseph Wolinski's court case over William Dobell's winning 1943 Archibald Prize with his portrait of Joshua Smith.

[21] As late as 1951, in response to a show there, an unnamed Age art reviewer remarked that; "The Sedon Galleries continue firm in their policy of presenting work by members of the Heidelberg school and its present-day adherents.

The immediate impression one takes from a re-examination of these excitable etchings is that, although they are astonishingly competent in their textures, they are deficient in design [achieving] dynamic effects from emotional intensity rather than from any purely artistic source.