The Gallery has a collection of over 6,000 Australian and International items including works on paper, paintings, decorative arts and sculpture.
(meta data) TITLE: Geelong Gallery | Collection | Geelong Gallery Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis Portraits in the Geelong Gallery collectionPhotographer: Andrew Curtis Eugène von Guérard in the Geelong Gallery collection Photographer: Andrew Curtis ## About the Collection Established in 1896, the Geelong Gallery is one of Australia's leading and oldest regional art galleries. The Gallery's significant collection of over 6,000 works includes Australian and international paintings, works on paper, sculpture and decorative arts. The Gallery is home to a number of iconic Australian paintings including Eugène von Guérard's Aborigines met on the road to the diggings (1854), The Weatherboard Falls (1863) and View of Geelong (1856), Louis Buvelot's On the Woods Point Road (1872), Frederick McCubbin's A bush burial (1890) and Russell Drysdale's Hill End (1948). The greatest strengths of the Gallery's permanent collection are colonial paintings, including a splendid array of early images of Geelong and its wider region such as John Skinner Prout's lithograph Geelong (1847), and Alexander Webb's Yarra Street, Geelong (1872); colonial metalwork including Edward Fischer's Geelong gold cup (1890); English painted porcelain from 1750 to 1850, Worcester, Buckingham Palace card tray (c. 1840–45); works on paper (19th century to the present); and modern and contemporary Australian paintings, sculpture and decorative arts including works by Fred Williams, Ann Thomson, Peter Booth, Juan Davila, Rosalie Gascoigne, Jan Senbergs and John Brack. ## Explore the Collection Explore the Collection Frederick McCUBBINA bush burial 1890oil on canvasPurchased by public subscription, 1900 Grace COSSINGTON SMITHTree trunk 1930oil on composition boardJH McPhillimy, EA Austin and HP Douglass Bequest Funds, 1970 Juan FORDPainting, phrenology (Abstraction) 2004 oil on canvas Fletcher Jones art prize (winner), 2004 Polixeni PAPAPETROU Olympia as Lewis Carroll's Xie Kitchin as a Chinaman (off duty) 2003 type C print; edition 1/6 Sybil Craig Bequest Fund, 2003Reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Polixeni Papapetrou Arthur STREETONOcean blue, Lorne 1921oil on canvasPurchased with funds generously provided by Geelong Art Gallery Foundation, Robert Salzer Foundation Art Program, Geelong Community Foundation, Will & Dorothy Bailey Charitable Gift and numerous individual donors, 2011 Sally SMART Mad house (history painting) no. 1 1989 oil and enamel on canvasPurchased with funds generously provided by the Geelong Art Gallery Foundation, 1989 Eugene von GUERARD View of Geelong 1856oil on canvasPurchased through the Geelong Art Gallery Foundation with the generous support of the Victorian Government, the Australian Government, the City of Greater Geelong and numerous community and other donors, 2006 Sydney BALLCanzon nama 1967synthetic polymer paint on canvasCorio 5 Star Whisky prize, 1967Reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Sydney Ball Stephen BOWERS Red-tailed Black Cockatoo 2010 hand-painted and lustred earthenware Purchased with funds generously provided by the Yulgibar Foundation, 2011 Paul RYANWild colonial boys 2012oil on canvas, dyptichGeelong contemporary art prize (winner), 2012 Stanhope FORBES The pier head 1910 oil on canvas Purchased 1912 Dorrit BLACKCaravan camp c. 1945watercolourPurchased 1979 Edward FISCHERGeelong gold cup 1890gold and ebonised wood (designed by Fred WOODHOUSE)Purchased through the Dorothy McAllister Bequest Fund with the assistance of the Geelong Racing Club, 1996 Russell DRYSDALEHill End 1948oil on composition boardJH McPhillimy and HP Douglass Bequest Funds, 1952 Johannes DUNTZE A fjord in Norway 1887 oil on canvas Gift of GM Hitchcock, 1900 Susie COOPERVase 1930sglazed stonewareGift of Dr HD Chamberlain, 1993 Chokosai EISHOBeautiful courtesan with flower fan 1790shand-coloured woodblock with mica (published by Yamaguchi-ya Chusuke)Gift of Sir Thomas Maltby, 1964 Tim JONES Woods with pit 2000woodcut; edition 20/35Geelong print prize, 2001© Tim Jones William FRITHThe railway station 1866engraving (engraved by Francis Holl; printed by R Holdgate; published by Henry Graves & Co.) Gift of Mrs ED Keighley, 1965 Edwin LONGThe Babylonian maid 1883 oil on canvasGift of JH McPhillimy, 1935 Max DUPAINEastern Beach, Geelong 1946/1999black and white photograph; edition 11/90 Sybil Craig Bequest Fund, 1999 Robert DOWLINGMrs Margaret McArthur of Meningoort 1856-57oil on canvasCollection: Geelong GalleryPurchased with the generous assistance of the Trustees of the Howard Hitchcock Bequest, and with additional support from the Friends of the Geelong Gallery, 2001 Augustine DALL'AVAIf only Carl knew #19 1990painted and natural wood, steel, stainless steel, granite, painted and unpainted stoneGift of the artist, 2007Reproduced courtesy of the artist Charles BUSH Last light over Lorne 1970s oil on canvasPurchased with funds generously provided by the Geelong Art Gallery Foundation, 2010 ## Stay in touch with all the latest from Geelong Gallery. News & events Geelong Contemporary Kids & families Gallery Store
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