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…
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 33 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
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
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 38 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
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
I have been trying to find time ever since the arrival of the Tiepolo to send you a lin
In 1954 the National Gallery of Victoria purchased a major painting by the French artist Bernard Buffet titled simply Owl, 1950 (fig. 1)
In 1944 the three Melbourne realist artists, Noel Counihan (1919–1986), Yosl Bergner (1920–) and Vic O’Connor (1918–) wrote, ‘We in fact work together as a group&
With the death of Dr Ursula Hoff in Melbourne on 10 January 2005, the National Gallery of Victoria has lost the person who, more than any other individual, shaped its…