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The Art Gallery of Western Australia was founded in 1895. It is located in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge, with the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia.
The Art Gallery of South Australia was founded in 1881. It is located at the heart of Adelaide’s cultural boulevard, North Terrace, between the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide.
Established in 1886, the Warrnambool Art Gallery offers a diverse collection of artworks, from elegant European salon paintings to the Avant-garde modernism of the Angry Penguins.
Artworks range from romanticised colonial landscapes to contemporary Australian printmaking by Juan Davila, Barbara Hanrahan and Ray Arnold.
(collection of woodcut bookplates: see Warner & Crayford cats).
(incl. 'Bombed House, Darwin’ 1945, w/c ill. Hanson, cat.197).
(The Rock and the Flies 1952, linocut ill. Hanson, cat.198).
Founded in 1913, the Castlemaine Art Museum (previously named Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum) has a unique collection of exclusively Australian art and fascinating historical artefacts reflecting the early history of the district.
(good col. incl. “Mr. Picasso! Gentlemen, you wont find him here”, acquired 1977).
National Gallery of Victoria has 'Preliminary drawing for Margo in Spring’ 1962, 'The War in Cambodia…’, 'Employees Federation…’ 1970, 'Night Time – Alice Springs’ 1945-47, 'Bombed Houses, Koepang’ 1945, 'Abstract of auctions’ 1944 et al.
Australian War Memorial has 24 paintings and pencil drawings, including 'Kamiri Seachlight’ painted on Noemfoor Island in June 1945.
Newcastle Region Art Gallery has at least 7 linocuts (ill. Crayford).
The Art Gallery of New South Wales began in the 1870s as an aspect of the Academy of Art. Later it became known as the National Art Gallery of NSW. This name persisted beyond Federation in 1901. It was given its present name in 1958.
It remains the principal collecting and exhibiting body in NSW and is governed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act of 1980.
(She’s warm alright [pub conversation] 1966, linocut, gift of Hal Missingham 1967; When in Kalgoolie … Dial-a-Prayer 1970, linocut, gift of Hal Missingham 1971; Heels and Heeler, Charleville 1971, gift of Hal Missingham 1972; and An Opera House in Every Home 1972, linocut, gift of Hal Missingham 1973 (now a tea-towel {and mug?} at AGNSW) – all Thake Christmas cards.
This Collection began when Dr John Orde Poynton generously donated 3,700 Old Master prints in 1959. In 1964, the Collection was enhanced by Harold Wright’s bequest of half his collection of Lionel Lindsay prints and prints by W. P. Robins and H. J. Stuart Brown. It has since been supplemented by gifts and purchases to number over 8,000 prints and volumes from the 15th to the 20th centuries, including paintings.
The VCA Art Collection spans the entire history of the College and its predecessor, the National Gallery School of Art (first opened in 1867).
Comprising painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper, most works are by students, staff or alumni.
DAAO has a separate entry for The Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramics Collection. It was bequeathed to the VCA Collection in 2004.