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Heide Museum of Modern Art
Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road Bulleen
Tue to Fri 10am-5pm, Sat, Sun & Public
Holidays 12noon to 5pm
Tel: (03) 9850 1500
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Heide Museum of Modern Art
The complex is based around Heide, the home of John & Sunday Reed.

Heide II - the new house

Heide II from the kitchen garden
Heide is a property on the banks of the Yarra (7 Templestowe
Road Bulleen next to Banksia Park to be exact) in the area where the
Australian Impressionists (later known as the Heidelberg School) were in the
late nineteenth century developing their new style of outdoor painting. By
the mid twentieth century, John and Sunday
Reed had purchased the property with its small farmhouse and it
was here that artists such as
Sidney Nolan, Albert
Tucker, Arthur Boyd,
Joy Hester, John Perceval and Danila Vassillieff worked and often lived. It
was also regarded as the headquarters of the Angry Penguins - a group of
artists, writers and philosophers centred around Max Harris and intent on
promoting modernist art and writing. Later John and Sunday Reed commissioned
a new house (Heide II) in a modernist style and the architecture has stood
the test of time extremely well. Sunday also created a large kitchen garden
with vegetables and herbs (see above) which is still maintained today.
The property is now home to the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
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