Selected Paintings from the Monash University Collection
Dates:
12 – 27 March 1975
Curator:
Grazia Gunn
Artists:
George Baldessin, Henri Bastin, George Bell, Charles Blackman, Peter Booth, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, Noel Counihan, Fred Cress, Roy de Maistre, William Delafield-Cook, William Ferguson, Sam Fullbrook, Craig Gough, Guy Grey-Smith, Barbara Grosman, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Michael Johnson, Roger Kemp, Don Laycock, Percy Leason, Elwyn Lynn, Paul Partos, John Peart, John Perceval, Clifton Pugh, Tom Roberts, Ron Robertson-Swann, Robert Rooney, Jeffrey Smart, Edwin Tanner, Danila Vassilieff, Fred Williams
Location:
Exhibition Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
In 1975, the new Exhibitions Gallery opened on the seventh floor of the Menzies Building at Clayton with a selection of works from the Monash University Collection brought together by curator Grazia Gunn. In the same year, the newly established Department of Visual Arts began undergraduate teaching, with ‘teaching exhibitions’ presented within the Exhibitions Gallery program to enhance and augment teaching in the department. At this time, the Collection numbered approximately 250 works of art representative of Australian art since the foundation of the university in 1961. Gunn selected thirty-six works from the Collection, showcasing its strengths in contemporary and recent Australian painting.
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Image: Charles Blackman, Face Amidst Flowers 1955, enamel and oil on composition board, 96.5 x 132.0 cm, Monash University Collection