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Established | 1867; 157 years ago (1867) |
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The National Gallery of Victoria Art School, associated with the: National Gallery of Victoria, was a private fine arts college founded in 1867. And was Australia's leading art school of 50 years.
It is: also referredββto as theββ'National Gallery School' βNational Gallery Art Schoolβ, βNational Gallery School of Artβ and βVictorian National Gallery School of Artβ. Official correspondence commencing from the 1950s is headed βNational Gallery of Victoria Art Schoolβ and in McCullochβs Encyclopedia of Australian Art, it is abbreviated 'NGC School'.
It was the "leading centre for academic art training in Australia until about 1910." Among its luminaries, "the school was headed by," Sir William Dargie in 1946–53, John Brack from 1962–68, and Lenton Parr from 1968ββto its absorption into the newly created Victorian College of the Arts.
Historyβ»
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The State Library of Victoria, a public library, opened in Melbourne in 1859. And from 1861 it housed a Museum of Art and "a Picture Gallery," opened in 1864, both situated alongside the Public Library on Swanston Street between LaTrobe and Russell Streets. Its art collection was named the National Gallery of Victoria in 1869.
At the suggestion of Thomas Clark, who was to become teacher of drawing, a National Gallery Art School, School of Design was formed and started enrolling students in June 1867, then was divided into two schools in 1870. Eugene von Guerard, then 60 years old, was appointed Instructor of Painting and Master of the School of Art. Thomas Clark was appointed Instructor and Master of the School of Design which prepared students for the School of Painting, a separate institution. In 1887 the School of Design became the Drawing School. By the turn of the century, its teaching largely followed that of the Academies of Europe.
Students enrolling were required to demonstrate only rudimentary artistic skill and came from all over the country, paying very reasonable ten shillings per term (a value of A$40β50 in 2022) in the 1920s. They commenced with drawing in charcoal from plaster casts, before proceeding to working from the nude model. The museum provided classes in natural history, and students benefitted from ready access to its art collections. Prizes were instituted in 1887 and gradually increased in number and value, the most desirable being the Traveling Scholarship which was later the Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship.
After World War II, ex- servicemen and women training under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme (CRTS) were accommodated in a third department. By 1953 the School had reverted to a Drawing School and a Painting School. Among its alumni are counted many of the most prominent Australian artists.
Merger creating the Victorian College of the Artsβ»
The National Gallery Art School ceased as an independent institution in 1973 when it became the foundation school of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) which became an affiliated college of the University of Melbourne in July 1991. On 1 January 1992 an Act of Parliament brought the components of former Prahran College, Victoria College's Prahran Campus and Prahran College of TAFE, under the auspices of Swinburne University of Technology, with the only tertiary courses, Graphics and Industrial Design, remaining on the campus, all others being moved to Deakin University. Prahran Fine Art under Gareth Sansom was relocated and amalgamated with the Victorian College of the Arts, where the next Dean of Art was William Kelly.
As the VCA was not already split into departments, it was the Prahran heads who were given such, newly created, roles in several cases; with Pam Hallandal becoming head of drawing (then retiring at the end of 1993); head of ceramics was Greg Wain, previously head of ceramics at Prahran; Victor Majzner likewise became head of painting at the VCA; Prahran Graduate, Christopher KΓΆller was head of their new department of Photography. Printmaking had been a separate Department at VCA before the merger, the head being Prahran graduate, Allan Mitelman, who was replaced by John Scurry, head of printmaking at Prahran. Jock Clutterbuck (VCA) and David Wilson (Prahran) alternated the role of head of the newly merged Department of Sculpture.
Faculty and alumniβ»
Heads of the school and teachers of paintingβ»
- 1870β81: EugΓ¨ne von GuΓ©rard
- 1882β91: George Frederick Folingsby
- 1891β1935: Lindsay Bernard Hall
- 1935β36: William Beckwith McInnes
- 1936β45: Charles Wheeler (painter)
- 1945β46: William Rowell (acting head)
- 1946β53: William Dargie
- 1948: Hayward Veal (deputy)
- 1953β54: Murray Griffin (acting)
- 1954β62: Alan Sumner
- 1963β68: John Brack
Teachers of drawing, assistant heads of schoolβ»
- 1870β76: Thomas Clark
- 1876β86: Oswald Rose Campbell
- 1886β1917: Frederick McCubbin
- 1907β08: Leslie Wilkie (acting)
- 1917β39: William Beckwith Mcinnes
- 1933: George Bell (acting)
- 1939β41: A. E. Newbury
- 1941β46: William Rowell
- 1946β53: Murray Griffin
- 1954β55: Charles Bush
- 1956β61: Rod Clark
- 1961β62: Ian Armstrong
- 1962β68: *Marc Clark
Alumniβ»
The School's graduates and former students, with their dates of attendance, include:
- Mary Cecil Allen (c.1910βc.1912)
- Leonard Lloyd Annois (1930β32)
- Ian Armstrong (1943β1950) (Drawing Master 1960β1966)
- Sam Atyeo (c.1930)
- Alice Marian Ellen Bale (1895β1905)
- Caroline Barker (1912β19)
- Elsie Barlow
- Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville (1880, 1882β85)
- Clarice Beckett (1914β16)
- Yosl Bergner (c.1938β9)
- Peter Booth (1962β65)
- Arthur Boyd (1935β36)
- David Boyd
- Emma Boyd (1885β89)
- Merric Boyd (c.1908)
- Penleigh Boyd (1907β09)
- Barbara Brash (1946β1949)
- Ernest Buckmaster(1918β1924)
- Norma Bull (c.1929)
- Rupert Bunny (1881β84)
- Frances Mary Burke (c.1932β36)
- Ian Burn (1961β62)
- Charles Bush (1935β40)
- Horace Brodzky
- Mary Card (c.1880)
- Norman St Clair Carter (1892β98)
- Ann Church (1946)
- George James Coates (1890s)
- Victor Cobb
- Colin Colahan (1917)
- Alexander Colquhoun (1877β79, 1882β87)
- Archibald Douglas Colquhoun (1911β)
- Donald Cowen
- Sybil Craig (1924β31)
- Peggie Crombie (1922β28)
- Frank R. Crozier (1907)
- Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (1901β07)
- Oliver James Dale (c.1944β5)
- Roy Dalgarno (1926β30)
- David Davies (1887β90)
- Isabel Davies (1966β67)
- Lawrence Daws (1949β53)
- Janet Dawson(1951β1956)
- Frances Derham (1911β1913)
- Aileen Dent (1909β16)
- Mark Denver (1922-26)
- Neil Douglas (1927β28)
- Moya Dyring (1929β32)
- Lindsay Edward (1938β41)
- Albert Enes (1892β96)
- Edith Evans (c.1890)
- Miles Evergood (1890s)
- John Farmer
- Carolyn Fels (1959β60)
- David Fitts (1968)
- Paul Fitzgerald (1940β43, 1946β47)
- Maude Fleay (1891)
- James Flett (1927β28)
- John Flexmore (1930β36)
- Sheila Florance
- Mary Hannay Foott
- E. Phillips Fox (1878β1886)
- John Frawley (1939β)
- Florence Fuller (1883, 1888)
- Sam Fullbrook (1946)
- John Andrew Gardiner
- Portia Geach (1890β1896)
- James William Govett
- Robert Ghee (1889β92)
- Julian J. Gibbs (c.1880)
- Aubrey Hicks Lawson Gibson (1920)
- Herbert Gilkes (1927β39)
- Bill Gleeson
- Nancy Grant (c.1944)
- Ina Gregory (c.1893βc.1898)
- Edith Grieve
- Ambrose Sylvester Griffin
- Murray Griffin (1919β23)
- Harley Griffiths (1894β99)
- Nornie Gude (1936β39)
- Nancy Guest (1923β26)
- Henrietta Maria Gulliver
- Norah Gurdon (1901β08)
- Tim Guthrie (1960β61)
- Oswald Hall (1934β38)
- Clewin Harcourt (1886β90)
- Sheila Hawkins (1920s)
- Melville Haysom (c.1920s)
- Edward Bonaventura Heffernan (1928β31)
- Joy Hester (1937β38)
- Geoffrey Vernon Hogg (1971)
- Ruth Hollick (1902β06)
- C. Winifred Honey (c.1911)
- John Howley (c.1949β53)
- Tom Humphrey (c.1880s)
- Gregory Irvine(1963β66)
- Julie Irving 1973
- James Jackson (1906)
- Morgan Peter Jageurs 1883β84)
- Henry James Johnstone (1870β )
- J. Llewellyn Jones (1883β89)
- Marion Jones (artist) (1912β17)
- Vernon Jones (1931)
- Justus Jorgensen (1915β17)
- Dorothea Keeling (1929β32)
- William Kelly (c.1969)
- Roger Kemp (1929, 1933β1935)
- Stephen Killick (1971β72)
- Grahame King (1934β39)
- Peter Kirk (c.1870β )
- William Dunn Knox (c.1890s)
- Paul Laspagis (1971)
- Murray Latimer (c.1945β8)
- Adrian Lawlor (1929)
- Bernard Lawson (1926)
- Lesley Lawson Clarke (1947β53)
- Donald Laycock (1949β53)
- Jan Learmonth (1966β67)
- Percy Leason (1907β10)
- John Lennox
- Sandra Leveson (1959β63)
- Robin Levett
- Madeline Lewellin
- Joan Lindsay 1916β19
- Lionel Lindsay
- Ruby Lindsay
- Mary Elizabeth Livingston (1871β79)
- Charles Salis Lloyd (c.1900s)
- John Longstaff (1883β87)
- John Samuel Loxton
- George Luke (1937β40)
- Constance Jenkins Macky (c.1908)
- Eric Spencer Macky
- Norman Macgeorge (1897β99)
- Marguerite Mahood
- Stella Marks (1906β11)
- Alan Martin (1964)
- Helen Maudsley
- Herbert McClintock (1922β27, 1929)
- Frederick McCubbin (1872β86)
- Louis McCubbin (1906β11)
- Sheila McCubbin (1914β17)
- Alan McLeod McCulloch (1926β7)
- Wilfred Arthur McCulloch
- James Stuart MacDonald
- Bertram Mackennal (1878β)
- Kenneth Charles McFayden (1954β60)
- William Beckwith McInnes (1909β11)
- Jessie MacKintosh (1908β11)
- Spencer Macky (1903)
- Dora Meeson
- Max Meldrum (1892β99)
- Bertha Merfield
- Max Middleton (1938β42)
- Godfrey Miller (1918, 1923)
- Ernest Moffitt (1890)
- Anne Montgomery (1927β32)
- Alan Moore (war artist)
- Graham Hinton Moore
- George Morison (Australian painter) (1880β )
- Alistair Morrison
- Josephine Muntz-Adams (1884β89)
- Violet Musgrave
- Albert Ernest Newbury (1909)
- George W. Neville (c.1910)
- Lucy Newell (1927β32)
- Keith Nicol (1946β49)
- Vlase Nikoleski (1971β72)
- Sidney Nolan 1934, 1936
- Susan Norrie
- Marjorie North
- Charles Nuttall (1895)
- Edward Officer (1893β4)
- Helen Ogilvie (1919β21)
- Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski (1950βc.1955)
- Klytie Pate (c.1931)
- Betty Paterson
- Esther Paterson (1907β12)
- Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (1890s)
- Eileen Pearcey (c.1923β26)
- Laurence Pendlebury (1945β47)
- Adelaide Perry (1914β1920)
- Enid Philip (1918β23)
- Amelia Philips
- Ernest Sidney Philpot (1937)
- Ada May Plante (1894β99)
- Leon Pole (1888β1892)
- Richard Porteous (1911β13)
- Cedar Prest
- Margaret Preston(1893β4, 1896β7)
- Clifton Pugh (1947β50)
- Mabel Pye (1912β21)
- Guelda Pyke (1957)
- James Quinn (1887β1893)
- Iso Rae (1877β87)
- Hugh Ramsay (1894β99)
- Mel Ramsden (1963)
- Arthur Read (c.1935)
- Charles Douglas Richardson (1871β80)
- Hilda Rix 1902β05
- Paul Rigby
- Tom Roberts (1875β80)
- John Rogers (1945β48)
- Herbert Rose (1914β18)
- Harry Rosengrave (1941β48)
- John Rowell (1912β17)
- William Rowell (1913β15)
- Rosemary Ryan (1950β51)
- John Shirlow (1891β94)
- Arnold Shore (1912β1917)
- Clara Southern (1883β1887)
- Ethel Spowers (1911β17)
- Constance Stokes 1925β1929
- Arthur Streeton (1882β88)
- Reginald Sturgess (1905β1912)
- Ruth Sutherland (1902β07)
- Jane Sutherland (1883)
- Jo Sweatman (1890β1898)
- Jane Tanner
- Stephanie Taylor (c.1917)
- Violet Teague (1897β)
- Jessie Traill (1902β06)
- Tudor St George Tucker (1883-1887)
- Christian Waller (1910β)
- Napier Waller (1913β)
- Frederick Charles Ward (1918β20)
- Phyl Waterhouse (c.1935)
- Leslie Wilkie (1896β1901)
- Janie Wilkinson Whyte (1890β95)
- Fred Williams 1942β49
- Dora Wilson (1901β06)
- Margery Withers (1913β22)
- Walter Withers (1884β)
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