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The White Hat Guide to NGV Australia (The Ian Potter Centre)
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
Open daily 10am to 5pm
Thursday 10am to 9pm
Closed Mondays
Open all public holidays
except Good Friday and Christmas Day
Open 1-5pm Anzac Day (25 April)
Tel: (03) 8620 2222
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(National Gallery of Victoria Australian collection) Located in what White Hat regards as a stunning building in Federation Square and consisting of twelve galleries over three levels, this centre houses the finest and most comprehensive collections of Australian art in the world. The collection contains 20,000 works, and at any one time there are 1,800 on display in its 20 galleries. The Indigenous Art section contains works by William Barak, Ginger Riley, Munduwalawala, Peggy Napangardi Jones an Lin Onus. It also includes Emily Kngwarreye's Big Yam Dreaming. The 19th and 20th Century section contains works by the Heidelberg School, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, John Brack as well as Fred Williams' Pilbara Series (recently donated by Rio Tinto). Other works include Fred McCubbin's The Pioneer (see above) and Tom Roberts' Shearing of the Rams (see below).
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John Brack Australia
1920–1999
Collins St, 5p.m. 1955 oil on canvas 114.8 x 162.8 cm
National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1956. © National Gallery of
Victoria
White Hat has obtained the appropriate permission from the National Gallery of Victoria
to reproduce this image |
| Kapt'n Koori
Lin Onus
(currently hanging in the NGVA, Melbourne) |
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
Open daily 10am-5pm. Closed Mondays
Open all public holidays except Good Friday and Christmas Day
Open 1-5pm Anzac Day (25 April)
Tel: (03) 8620 2222
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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