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Frank Norton

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Artist (Painter)

The first official war artist for the Royal Australian Navy, painter and illustrator went on to become the Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.

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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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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.

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

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Related collections	Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand (collected in) Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)	Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand (collected in) Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)

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Frank Norton

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand

Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT

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

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