Art Gallery of Ballarat
Subtitle: stories from the collection
By: Gordon Morrison, Peter Freund, Anne Rowland, Jennifer Jones-O'Neil, Julie McLaren, Brenda Wellman, Robyn Walton ; with foreword by Patrick McCaughey
Contributors: Freund, Peter, 1959- author; Rowland, Anne, author; Jones-O'Neil, Jennifer, author; McLaren, Julie, author; Wellman, Brenda, author; Walton, Robyn, author; McCaughey, Patrick, 1943- writer of foreword; Art Gallery of Ballarat
Publisher: Art Gallery of Ballarat
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Ballarat, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9780994162854
Subjects: Exhibitions; Australian Art; Anecdotes; History; Collectors and collecting; Art Gallery of Ballarat
Description: An extraordinary account of the development of one of the great Australian art collections lavishly illustrated with works both familiar and rarely seen. 'Stories from the collection' provides a generalist history of Australian Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints in the context of the growth of the Ballarat collection. Two time-lines are charted: that from the foundation of the Gallery in 1884, and that from the beginning of European Settlement up to the present day. Key works from the collection are featured and discussed in relation to their place in Australian art, but there is also a strong emphasis on connoisseurship: the changing patterns and themes of collecting, over the five generations from when the Gallery first opened to the public.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 502-505) and index.