Geelong Art Gallery
Former name | Geelong Art Gallery |
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Established | 1895 |
Location | 55 Little Malop St, Geelong, Australia |
Type | Art gallery |
Director | Jason Smith |
Curator | Lisa Sullivan |
Website | http://www.geelonggallery.org.au |
The Geelong Art Gallery, currently known as Geelong Gallery, is a major regional
History
An art gallery for
The gallery was soon moved to the Free Library Building in Moorabool Street (between Malop and Corio Streets).
In March 1903, two watercolours of colonial life in Victoria were presented to the Geelong Art Gallery by Mr. G.M. Hitchcock. One depicts William Buckley 'the wild white man'.[2] The other watercolour is of the interior of the first newspaper office in Melbourne.[3]
Building
The current Geelong Gallery was officially opened in 1915, and was erected as a memorial to the late George M. Hitchcock. It is located on the south side of
The first additions to the gallery occurred in 1928 when the Henry P. Douglas Gallery was opened, followed by the H.F. Richardson Gallery in 1937. The main entrance to the gallery was moved to Little Malop Street with the opening of the J.H. McPhillimy Gallery by then-Prime Minister Joseph Lyons in 1938. Further expansion followed in 1956 and 1971, with contemporary renovations taking place in 2001 and 2017.
Proposed expansion
A major expansion of the gallery's existing building has been proposed, in order to display more of its holdings.[2]
Collection
The Gallery has a collection of over 6,000 Australian and International items including works on paper, paintings, decorative arts and sculpture.[3] Individual collection items can be viewed on the Geelong Gallery collection website.
There are a number of notable artworks in the collection:
- Eugène von Guérard Aborigines met on the road to the diggings (1854)
- Eugene von Guerard View of Geelong (1856)
- Louis Buvelot On the Woods Point Road (1872)
- Frederick McCubbin A bush burial (1890)
- Edward Fischer Geelong gold cup (1890)
- Stanhope Forbes The pier head (1910), considered "one of the greatest British impressionist paintings in Australia"[2]
- Russell Drysdale Hill End (1948)
- Fred Williams Yellow landscape (1968)
- Rosalie Gascoigne Sharpe Bros horizontal (1981)
Since 2016 the Gallery has been the custodian of the Colin Holden Print Collection on behalf of the Colin Holden Charitable Trust.
References
- ^ "Geelong Gallery | Collection | Geelong Gallery".
- ^ a b Bronwyn Watson, "public works", Weekend Australian, 23–24 January 2016, Review, p. 10
- ^ "Collection | Geelong Gallery". www.geelonggallery.org.au. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- Beg, Peter. (1990). Geelong - The First 150 Years. Globe Press. ISBN
0-9592863-5-7
- Geelong Gallery Archived 30 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine: About the Gallery.