In the major libraries of Australia there are sets of remarkable photographs of aborigines taken between 1868 and 1876 in Grafton, New South Wales, by John William Lindt.
In 1994, a rare watermark album assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by Canon Ludwig von Büllingen (1771–1848), entered the collection of the N
Tom Roberts’s large canvas, Shearing the rams (fig. 1) is popularly seen today as an archetypal vision of Australian pastoral li
The photography collection was recently enriched by the gift from Mrs Beryl M.
Australian art of the first two to three decades of the twentieth century exists today, if indeed it finds focus at all in the received history of Australian art, beneath a…
Nicholas Caire is considered today to be one of the pre-eminent Australian photographers of the nineteenth century, and Fairy scene at the Landslip, Black’s Spur, c
Brook Andrew is an artist with a flair for provoking uncomfortable emotional states and destabilising conventional categories.
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…