death_date death_place children birth_place nationality name honorific_suffix birth_date known_for spouse article_title education birth_name occupation alma_mater
31 march 2015 wamboin , new south wales , australia peter paul churcher churcher , ben churcher , tim churcher , brisbane , queensland , australia australian betty churcher aus 100 ao 11 january 1931 director -- 1997 -rrb- of the national gallery of australia -lrb- 1990 roy churcher -lrb- 1955 -- 2014 -rrb- betty churcher
 somerville house elizabeth ann dewar cameron arts administrator royal national university college of art courtauld institute of art australian
betty churcher

elizabeth ann dewar `` betty '' churcher -lrb- `` née '' cameron ; 11 january 193131 march 2015 -rrb- was an australian arts administrator , best known as director of the national gallery of australia from 1990 to 1997 .
she was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life .
she won a travelling scholarship to europe and attended the london royal college of art .
she received an master of arts from the courtauld institute of art , university of london in 1977 .
after death she was described by one writer as `` a seminal figure in the arts sector , a superior curator and administrator as well as a gifted communicator who introduced australians to the world of art outside the national collections . ''
