In mid May 1938 the then director of the National Gallery of Victoria, J. S. MacDonald, wrote disparagingly of the striking 1909 portrait Rt. Hon.
In 1891 and 1892 a group of sixty-four prints was acquired that formed the foundation of the NGV’s now-renowned holdings of European print
A public lecture to accompany the NGV’s current exhibition of paintings and objects from the vast collection of Catherine the Great in the Hermitage sounded daunting.
In 1976 the Department of Prints and Drawings in the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a first edition set of Goya’s Los Caprich
One of the aspects of the last two decades of the 19th century is the emergence in art of new shoots of movements and styles, which were to come into…
Towards the close of 1891, Odilon Redon wrote to express thanks to André Mellerio for his friendship, his connoisseurship and the support of his critical energies: My dear Mellerio, I got home yesterday,…
In 1947 or 1948 I saw in a daily paper that the Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria wanted to create one or two internships at the Gallery for people…
In keeping with Dr Ursula Hoff’s own practice and with the meticulous training she has urged upon her students, this short article offers thoughts arising from an examination of a single artefactR
I have been devoted to Ursula Hoff ever since I met her at a time when both of us were engaged in graduate studies in the Department of Art History in…
This issue of the Art Bulletin of Victoria is published in honour of Dr Ursula Hoff, who has over the years made such a considerable contribution to art scholarship and to…
Since the revival of interest in printmaking and the simultaneous rediscovery of Australian women artists in the 1970s, the name Jessie Traill has been treated with growing respect by curators, collectors and…
In 1891 and 1892 the National Gallery of Victoria, then an institution barely thirty years old, purchased a group of sixty-four original old master and nineteenth-century engravings and etching
If anything has been learnt from the great Rembrandt exhibition held in 1997 at the National Gallery of Victoria, it is that attributing paintings to, and de-attributing paintings from, an…
The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.
Dendrochronology is a discipline within the biological sciences that enables us to determine the age of wooden object