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Baillieu Library Special Collections, University of Melbourne, Vic.

Description

The Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, comprise some 200,000 rare or historic books, serials and pamphlets and literary archives.

The McArthur Bequest (1903) was the first substantial donation to the University Library, which has been followed by, among others, the Sir Russell Grimwade, Ian McLaren and Clern Christesen collections acquired in the 1970s.

Website

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/

Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic.

Description

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.

Website

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections/collections/visualarts.html#vca

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Description

Website

http://cs.nga.gov.au/Default.cfm

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Artbank

Website

http://www.artbank.gov.au/

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS

Website

http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/qvmag/index.php?c=3

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Website

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/

Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD

Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Victoria

La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne, VIC

University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS

Website

http://www.utas.edu.au/

Deakin University Museum of Art, Vic.

Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, NSW

Website

http://www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au/

Moreland City Council, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website

http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/home.html

British Museum (Dept of Prints & Drawings)

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Description

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.

Website

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/

Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS

Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, VIC