The Year in Review 2011 - National Gallery of Victoria

The Year in Review2011: The national gallery of victoria’s150th anniversary

FROM The PresiDenTThe 150th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Victoria provided an opportunity to reflect onthe great institution that the NGV has become, and to honour the contribution that so many have madeduring its history.More importantly, this was also an occasion on which to look ahead to the next milestones, to envisagewhat the NGV of the future should be like and to plan new ways in which the Gallery can better serve thecommunity.We have been very fortunate to have had the involvement and support of a great many remarkablepeople over the years, beginning with the visionary contribution of the Gallery’s first curator and inauguraldirector, Eugene von Guérard. This was followed by the extraordinary benefaction of Alfred Felton, whichhas transformed the collection since 1904 and is continuing to do so, with an outstanding anniversarygift of 173 works to the Indigenous collection, now easily the best in the world.Countless others have made invaluable contributions to the life and success of the NGV since thatearly period, for which we are exceedingly grateful.We owe a great deal to all those who have helped create this important institution, making it thecultural flagship it is today. This legacy should spur all of us to work hard to enhance the position of theGallery, to strengthen its contribution to the community and to encourage the public of Victoria to begenerous to ensure the NGV’s continued success for future generations.It is vital that the Gallery continues to engage the community and to develop innovative strategiesfor further increasing public participation, particularly from a younger demographic. NGV Studio was oneinitiative launched during the year that did exceptionally well, showcasing new forms of artistic expressionand harnessing the potential of new communication technologies and social media to reach youngeraudiences.In addition to NGV Studio, a series of exciting new displays and spaces were opened during the year,including the beautiful Salon and Regency Rooms on the second floor of NGV International, a vibrant newArt of the Pacific gallery, a new gallery space for contemporary exhibitions as well as a second permanentspace for children and families, this time on the ground floor of NGV International. I encourage anyone whohas not yet seen these new rooms to do so as they have completely revitalised the Gallery.The NGV belongs to and exists to serve the community, and all Victorians should be proud of thisexceptional cultural resource.Congratulations to the Gallery on reaching 150 years. We look forward to many more exciting timesahead.Allan Myers AO QCPresident, Council of TrusteesThe 150th Anniversary has been cause for the celebration of the many ingredients that have ledto the National Gallery of Victoria’s status as one of the world’s great visual art museums, and the keyposition it occupies as part of Melbourne’s cultural identity.Philanthropy has played a primary role in building and shaping this great institution and recognitionof this was prominent in our 150th celebrations. It is this tradition of philanthropy that has enabled theNGV to build a collection of extraordinary quality and world renown for the people of Victoria over thepast 150 years.The Felton Bequest has been the major contributor to the NGV for more than a century, but it is theNGV Foundation that, in more recent years, has become the key vehicle for the continuing growth andenhancement of the Gallery’s collection. As part of the 150th celebrations, we held a dinner to honour allpast and present members of the NGV Foundation board, and to celebrate the Foundation’s contributionto the Gallery.The 150th Anniversary year bought an exceptional tally of gifts – a reflection of both our anniversaryand a culmination of our efforts with the Masterpieces for Melbourne campaign. The campaign commencedfive years ago with the objective of adding materially to both the collection and to the funding of futureacquisitions.While we have not yet fully reached our initial ambitious targets, the total of all gifts to the NGVsince the campaign began, in both cash and works of art, now amounts to close to $120 million; a mostremarkable demonstration of the community’s support for the NGV and a significant achievement for theDirector and his team.During the year major gifts for the purchase of works of art were made by Allan and Maria Myers,John Higgins, Alan and Mavourneen Cowen, Ken and Jill Harrison, Peter Griffin, Luisa Valmorbida, LynWilliams, Ross and Fiona Adler, and Kerr and Judith Neilson. A generous gift from Nigel and Patricia Peckestablished an endowed fund.The exceptional generosity of Andrew Sisson allowed the Gallery to acquire a highly importantmasterpiece, a rare early sixteenth-century Northern Italian painting by Correggio.A gift of major works from Loti Smorgon’s private collection added to an extremely generous historyof support by the Smorgon family over many years. We thank Loti and her family for their extraordinarygenerosity and patronage which is an inspiration to the whole community.While the major gifts of the Felton Bequest to mark the 150th Anniversary have been featured, therewere also important gifts of works of art presented by Douglas Kagi, the Countess of Stradbroke RosieRous, John McCarthy, Patricia Macdonald, Todd Barlin, Michael Moon and Lyn Williams, each of whomcontinued their ongoing support.In support of major Gallery development or refurbishment works, gifts were made by Pauline Gandel,Bails and Sarah Myer through the Yugilbar Foundation, The Sidney Myer Fund, Peter and Joan Clemenger,and Gordon Moffat – all great continuing supporters of the NGV.Generous bequests were received from the estates of two friends of the Gallery, Maxwell Chapman andRuth Houghton. New Felton Society members have pledged a further $2.7 million to the NGV in their wills.While gifts of high value can attract media attention and bring new visitors through our doors, themost modest of gifts are always warmly received and can have a material impact on their relevant partof the collection.It is in this vein that I thank all of our donors for their continuing support. I extend our sincere thanksto everyone who continues the NGV’s great philanthropic tradition for the benefit of current and futuregenerations.2 3FROM The founDATion chairMAnBruce ParncuttTrustee & Chairman, NGV Foundation

FROM The direCTOrThe 150th Anniversary was a year of great celebration and of thinking about both the past andthe future. On 24 May the Gallery commemorated the 150th Anniversary of its founding, which demanded,of course, a public celebration to mark this important milestone in the history of Australia’s oldest publicart gallery. However, the anniversary was also an opportunity to reflect on where the NGV is today,where we would like to be in the future, and what we need to do to get there. Our aspirations for thefuture were very much a part of the message we wanted to communicate to the public and to the press.A special committee, chaired by our President, Allan Myers AO QC, with representation of the Council ofTrustees and management, orchestrated the anniversary event. Lisa Sassella, General Manager Marketingand Communications, took responsibility for the delivery of the 150th celebrations, and I thank her mostwarmly for the highly creative way in which the celebration events were managed.When the National Gallery of Victoria opened its doors in 1861, Melbourne was considered a ‘city ofmagnificent intentions’. It was a time of great optimism and ambitious planning, due in large part to thediscovery of gold and the influx of immigrants which followed.Notwithstanding their pioneering vision, it is hard to imagine that the Gallery’s founders could haveforeseen the vibrant, internationally-acclaimed institution the NGV would become over the course ofthe next one-and-a-half centuries. From relatively humble beginnings as a small exhibition space withinMelbourne’s Public Library, it has grown into the NGV we know and love today – an impressive, much lovedencyclopaedic collection of some seventy thousand works, housed in two architecturally distinguishedbuildings in Melbourne’s famed arts precinct. Above all, it was the vision of Alfred Felton – whose Bequest,established in 1904, made the NGV one of the world’s great art museums – which drove this.For our sesquicenterary we wanted to invite the whole community to join with us in celebrating theGallery’s rich history and achievements over the past 150 years, and to recognise and celebrate our greatbenefactors, and the generations of trustees, directors and staff who made it all possible.The anniversary year was officially opened at a media launch on 2 February, attended by the Premierand Minister for the Arts, Ted Baillieu, and the Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle. We announced key activitiesplanned for the year and the first major donations, including a group of significant modern works of artfrom the collection of our good friend and benefactor, Loti Smorgon, of which Mario Marini’s bronzesculpture, Rider, 1946, aroused huge interest.The next major announcement was made at a packed media conference on the morning of 24 May,the actual date of the NGV’s opening in 1861. The Governor of Victoria, The Hon. Alex Chernov AO QC,unveiled an exceptional gift of 173 Indigenous works from the Felton Bequest. The works included acollection of sixty-three rare nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indigenous shields, 107 twenty-firstcentury paintings from the Far Western Desert and three works by contemporary city-based Indigenousartists Vernon Ah Kee, Brook Andrew and Jonathan Jones, their theme being a ‘monument’ in honourof William Barak, head man of the Wurrundjerri in the nineteenth century. This was the most significantgift of Indigenous art in the Gallery’s history. In order to achieve this, the Felton Bequest had allowed itsincome to accumulate for nearly five years. The new works were formally gifted to the Gallery at the NGVFoundation’s Gala Fundraising dinner held in the Great Hall, attended by five hundred guests.During the evening an additional Felton Bequest gift, Gustave Caillebotte’s Impressionist landscape Theplain of Gennevilliers, yellow fields, 1884, was unveiled, along with a new gift from Allan and Maria Myers,a highly important twelfth-century Shõ-Kannon Bosatsu, further strengthening the historic Japanesecollection.Our 150th Anniversary week celebrations culminated in a two-day event, pARTy, on the weekend of28 and 29 May, organised under the creative direction of Robyn Archer. Robyn did a magnificent job inbringing art and the community together. Almost forty thousand people visited our two buildings over theweekend to join in the fun and help wish their Gallery a happy birthday. The doors at both The Ian PotterCentre: NGV Australia and NGV International stayed open until late throughout the weekend, with freemusic and performances, talks by artists, curators and special guests. A highlight was street art and livelyinstallations between the two buildings, referencing twenty-five key masterpieces in the NGV collection,produced by a combination of VCA students, artists and performers. It was a happy community party, andwe were touched by the many stories visitors told us about what the NGV meant to them and their families.Generous funding from the City of Melbourne ensured its success, and we thank the Lord Mayor, RobertDoyle, and the Deputy Lord Mayor, Susan Riley, for their unstinting support.Melbourne’s tradition of philanthropy over 150 years has enabled the NGV to build a collection ofextraordinary quality and world renown for the people of Victoria. In addition to the Felton Bequest’sanniversary gifts to the Gallery, we received many other major donations in honour of our 150th year.I would like to thank all of our donors most warmly for their strong philanthropic spirit and generosity. Thevalue of gifts of works of art offered in the anniversary year exceeded $30 million, and included Correggio’sRenaissance masterpiece Madonna and Child with the infant St John, c.1516–18, generously gifted by ourTrustee Andrew Sisson.The NGV Women’s Association also celebrated fifty years of support for the NGV, the occasion markedwith the acquisition of George Minne’s beautiful symbolist sculpture Kneeling youth, 1898. We areextremely grateful to the NGV Women’s Association, not only for their major contribution to this importantgift, but also for their continued support over half a century.During the year we undertook a number of significant refurbishments as part of our gallery renewalproject, the aim being to show the collection in new ways, to exhibit the many new acquisitions, and toreturn to public view many newly restored works not seen for a long time. One of the most remarkableitems was the Trinitarias carpet, specially restored in Belgium, and now unveiled, after intensive researchby leading world experts and NGV curators, as a late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century work ofexceptional quality produced in the Mughal Court in northern India.The key elements for the renewal program were: NGV Kids Space – a new gallery space on the groundfloor of NGV International dedicated to children and families. A major new space on the ground floor forglobal contemporary art, with exhibition programming supported by Joan and Peter Clemenger. A newArt of the Pacific gallery on Level 3 – a spacious and light-filled gallery with room for a more dynamicand open display of works than had previously been possible in the much smaller space on the groundfloor. The refurbished Salon Room, which has been a great hit with the public, with 126 pictures installed,many representing the NGV’s original collection, stacked three high to reflect our nineteenth-centurystyle of hanging. The Regency Room, which has been developed around last year’s marvellous gifts of SirWilliam Beechey’s 1790s portraits of the first Earl and Countess of Stradbroke, gifted to us by the presentcountess, Rosie Rous. NGV Studio at Federation Square, a new initiative to encourage and promoteexperimental and innovative art forms, especially with youth audiences. The complete refurbishment ofthe suite of Asian galleries (opening September 2012), to include our first gallery exclusively dedicatedto Japan, the Pauline Gandel Gallery of Japanese Art. The superb new spaces will contain far more ofthe collection than could previously be accommodated, and will have, for the first time, bilingual, andsometimes trilingual, didactic panels and labels.A great highlight of the year’s exhibitions program was a comprehensive survey of the work of Eugenevon Guérard, Australia’s most renowned and eminent landscape painter of the colonial period, and de factofirst director of the NGV. Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, a major retrospective, received glowingcoverage in print and online media. Von Guérard’s work was also featured in This Wondrous Land: ColonialArt on Paper, which looked at the early years of European settlement in Australia from 1773 to the latenineteenth century.Vienna: Art and Design, our 150th Anniversary Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, showcaseda dazzling selection of work which captured the artistic brilliance and cultural and intellectual zeitgeistof Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. The exhibition was applauded throughout the world for itsdepth, rigorous curatorial approach and stylish installation.The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910–37, a powerful and thought-provoking exhibition wasa perfect follow-on from the Vienna exhibition. The exhibition continued through the summer monthsinto 2012, bringing to a conclusion our trilogy of ‘Germanic’ central European exhibitions, which beganwith European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century, our Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010exhibition.A wide array of 150th-themed programs and activities were held all year long. I am pleased to reportthat the 150th anniversary special issue of the NGV Art Journal won first prize at the recent AmericanAssociation of Museums publications awards, from a global field, as the best gallery and museumscholarly journal. Our celebrations have brought new and old friends into the NGV. I would like to thankeveryone who participated in our anniversary celebrations and helped make our Gallery’s 150th year sosuccessful and memorable.4 5Gerard Vaughan AMDireCTor

(clockwise from top)Salon Room, NGVI; NGV Studio: Everfresh exhibition,NGVA; Art of the Pacific gallery; Regency Room, NGVIjanuary6Major refurbishments of various gallery spaces occurredthroughout the year including the Regency Room, SalonRoom and Art of the Pacific gallery along with the introductionof NGV Studio at Federation Square.

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major acquisitionsSean ScullyIrish/American 1945–Queen of the night 2008oil on canvas279.7 x 356.0 cmPurchased NGVFoundation with theassistance of GregWoolley and NGVContemporary, 2011Bernard BuffetFrench 1928–1999Still life with fireplace1952oil on canvas114.0 x 146.1 cmThe Eugénie CrawfordBequest, 20112223Sho-Kannon BosatsuHeian period (12thcentury) Japanlacquer and gilt onCypress (Hinoki), crystal172.0 x 60.0 x 50.0 cm(overall)Purchased with fundsdonated by Allan MyersAO and Maria MyersAO, 2011

Tommy MitchellNgaanyatjarra bornc.1943Kurlilypurru 2009synthetic polymer painton canvas152.0 x 212.0 cmFelton Bequest, 2011© Tommy Mitchell,courtesy WarakurnaArtists AboriginalCorporationThomas GirtinEnglish 1775–1802The stepping stones onthe Wharfe, above BoltonAbbey, Yorkshire 1801watercolour over tracesof pencil with touches ofgouache33.0 x 52.3 cmPurchased NGVFoundation, withthe assistance of ananonymous donor andMargaret Stones AMMBE, 2011Francesco FranciaItalian c.1450–1517Giacomo FranciaItalian c.1486–1557Giulio FranciaItalian 1487–1545Virgin and Child with theyoung Saint John in agarden of roses c.1515oil on wood panel115.4 x 93.5 cmPurchased with fundsdonated by JohnHiggins, Paula Fox,Ken and Jill Harrison,Alan and MavourneenCowen and donors tothe Francia Appeal, 2011Tony TucksonEnglish 1921–1973,worked in Australia1950–73Untitled – Yellow1970–73synthethic polymerand enamel paint oncomposition board(a-b) 213.5 x 244.0 cm(overall)National Gallery ofVictoria, MelbournePurchased withfunds donated by LotiSmorgon AO and VictorSmorgon AC, 2011CorreggioItalian 1489–1534Madonna and Childwith infant St John theBaptist c.1514–15oil on wood panel45.5 x 35.8 cmNational Gallery ofVictoria, MelbournePurchased with fundsdonated by AndrewSisson, 201124Gustave CaillebotteFrance 1848–94The plain of Gennevilliers,yellow fields (La plainede Gennevilliers, champsjaunes) 1884oil on canvas65.5 x 81.5 cmNational Gallery ofVictoria, MelbourneFelton Bequest, 201125

(clockwise from top left)Francia’s Virgin and Child with the young Saint Johnin a garden of roses c.1515; David Noonan’s workUntitled in the exhibition 10 ways to look at thepast; Carl Villis restoring Poussin’s The Crossingof the Red Sea; MaryJo Lelyveld restoring theframe of Poussin’s The Crossing of the Red Sea;Tom Nicholson’s work Untitled (Double Banner)in the exhibition 10 ways to look at the pastArtwork caption tocome here, taking upapproximately five to sixlines. Artwork captionto come here, taking upapproximately five tosix lines.julyOn 21 July the NGV opened a new contemporary exhibition,10 ways to look at the past, which featured works by tencontemporary Australian artists that demonstrated afascination with the passing of time. The media and publicwere intrigued and appreciative.Also in July the restoration of the Nicolas Poussinmasterpiece The Crossing of the Red Sea was announced.An intensive conservation project supported by BNPParibas and the BNP Paribas Foundation, the fascinatingprogress of the restoration was chronicled in conservatorCarl Villis’s blog in the lead-up to unveiling the restoredwork in 2012.28The NGV opened a new contemporaryexhibition, 10 ways to look at thepast, which featured works by tencontemporary Australian artists.29

In November, with the support of Joan andPeter Clemenger, a new gallery space forcontemporary exhibitions was launched.novemberIn November, with the support of Joan and Peter Clemenger, a new galleryspace for contemporary exhibitions was launched at NGV International with abeautiful show by the young Indian-born sculptor and installation artist RanjaniShettar. The soaring shapes and intriguing designs in Ranjani Shettar: Dewdropsand Sunshine explored the relationship of water and light to living things –especially appropriate over the summer months – using myriad materials andaddressing environmental issues.A stark and challenging exhibition, The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art1910–37, presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of German modernismin Australia to date, came to the NGV from the Art Gallery of New South Wales.With more than two hundred works including paintings, sculpture, prints,photography and more, it revealed a tumultuous era of great artistic innovation.The 2011 Life Members’ Awards were presented at the Annual Life Members’Dinner. Congratulations to our 2011 Life Members: Bill Bowness, Robert Jacks,Bill Henson, Alan and Mavourneen Cowen, Inge King and Yvonne Audette.3637(clockwise from top left)Joan Clemenger, Ranjani Shettar, Peter Clemenger at the Ranjani Shettar:Dewdrops and Sunshine opening; NGV Trustee Susan Cohn at The MadSquare: Modernity in German Art 1910–1937 opening; Len Groat, KennethReed, Amanda Dunsmore & Peter Canet at the Supporters of DecorativeArts function; Allan Myers & Sir Andrew Grimwade at the 2011 LifeMembers’ Awards Dinner; The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art1910–1937 Media Preview; Frances Lindsay, Edmund Capon, JacquiStrecker and Gerard Vaughan at The Mad Square: Modernity in GermanArt 1910–1937 opening; Guests at the opening; 2011 Life Members – FrontRow: Yvonne Audette, Inge King, & Mavourneen Cowen, Back Row: BillBowness, Robert Jacks, Bill Henson & Alan Cowen; Sir Andrew Grimwade& Sir Gustav Nossal at the 2011 Life Members’ Awards Dinner

The Director announcedthat the Masterpiecesfor Melbourne campaignhad reached theremarkable total ofalmost $120 million.december38The Director announced that the Masterpieces for Melbourne campaignhad reached the remarkable total of almost $120 million. He also unveiledthe forthcoming 2012 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition Napoleon:Revolution to Empire.The fourth Annual Supporters of Indigenous Art Dinner was held to raisefunds for a superb group of Milingimbi, Maningrida and Bathurst Islandsculptures from the Gabrielle Pizzi collection.39(clockwise from top left)Ron Vanderwal, Margaret Bullen, Grant Smith & Rae Rothfield at the fourthAnnual Supporters of Indigenous Art Dinner; Elijah Weston performing atthe Dinner; NGV staff photo; the President and Trustees, with the Director,in front of Sean Scully’s Queen of the night 2008; Liz Grainger, GeneralManager Operations (CFO), Lisa Sassella, General Manager Marketingand Communications with Bill Reid; Nick Palmer, Executive Director NGVFoundation with Leanne and Philip Chronican; Suzanne Santos & Rae Rothfieldat the fourth Annual Supporters of Indigenous Art Dinner

Friends, SuPPOrters and PATronsThe National Gallery of Victoria pays tribute to all our friends,donors, benefactors, patrons, volunteers and corporate partnerswhose support underpins our activities in so many ways.Emeritus TrusteesMarcus Besen AOJim Cousins AOSir Andrew Grimwade CBEAlison InglisMargaret Manion AOHugh M Morgan ACDame Elisabeth Murdoch ACS Baillieu Myer ACK Brian Stonier AOLyn Williams AMCOUNCIL OF TRUSTEESPresidentAllan Myers AO QCTrusteesSusan CohnPeter EdwardsVince FitzGeraldMaureen KerridgeNaomi Milgrom AOAngela NdalianisBruce ParncuttAndrew SissonJason Yeap OAMMichael UllmerNGV FOUNDATIONNGV Foundation BoardPresidentHugh M Morgan ACEmeritus Board MembersSir Andrew Grimwade CBEChairmanBruce ParncuttDeputy ChairmanIan Hicks AMBoard MembersBill BownessLeigh Clifford AOPeter EdwardsPaula FoxMorry FraidJohn HigginsAllan Myers AO QCNaomi Milgrom AOElizabeth MorganDame Elisabeth Murdoch ACS Baillieu Myer AC& Sarah MyerMaria Myers AOLady Potter ACLoti Smorgon AOLyn Williams AMCampaign CommitteeBruce Parncutt (Chair)Ross Adler ACBill BownessAlan CowenPerri CuttenPeter Griffin AMLorenz GrolloChloe HydeMichael TongDenis Tricks AMLeadership Gifts &Pledges >$100,0001 January 2006 –31 December 2011Loti Smorgon AO &Victor Smorgon ACAllan Myers AO QC &Maria Myers AOAnonymousBowness FamilyAlan Cowen &Mavourneen CowenIan Hicks AMJohn HigginsBruce Parncutt &Robin CampbellNigel & Patricia PeckFoundationGreg WoolleyYulgilbar FoundationAnonymous (2)Peter Farrell AMPauline GandelEstate of Ruth MargaretFrances HoughtonDame Elisabeth Murdoch ACSpotlight CharitableFoundationGreg WoolleyJason Yeap OAM &Min Lee WongAnonymousRoss Adler AC & Fiona AdlerMichael Tong & Emily TongLuisa ValmorbidaLyn Williams AMCash Gifts to theEndowment >$10,000to $100,0001 June 2010 –31 December 2011Sunraysia FoundationMaureen KerridgeMichael NagyThe Orloff Family TrustCarol SissonDavid Stephenson &Kate StephensonMargaret Ross AMMyriam Wylie & John WylieCash Gifts to the ArtAcquisition Fund>$10,000 to $100,0001 June 2010 – 31December 2011Alan Cowen &Mavourneen CowenPaula FoxPeter Canet & Ivanka CanetEdith GordonThe Stuart Leslie FoundationMargaret Ross AM& Ian RossWestpac Banking CorporationJoe White BequestHugh D T WilliamsonFoundationAnonymous (2)Bulgari Australia Pty LtdRino Grollo & DianaRuzzene GrolloLou Senini & Mary SeniniDavid WalshSir James Gobbo ACCVO & Lady GobboVivien KnowlesWayne McGeoch &Vicki McGeochCarol SissonThe Trust CompanyPATRONS PROGRAMSupporting the MasterpiecesAndrew ChurchyardDianne Gjergja &Giorgio GjergjaRon Hood & Sally HoodRosie Lew & Solomon LewG D NashMark Newman & Hyeon-Joo NewmanLoris PeggiePeter Robertson &Rachael RobertsonFrank Tisher & Miriam TisherSupporter’s CircleNicholas Allen & Helen AllenCher Beggs & Don BeggsAndrew BoothCaroline Clemente &Robert ClementeLord Francis Ebury& Lady EburyKaren FehringRoss Gordon & Kim GordonCatherine GrayRichard GreenGraham JoelGeorge Kass & Grace KassSusan KennettZara M Kimpton OAMAnthony B Lewis &Helen LewisBeatrice MoignardKoji NakagawaRae RothfieldMurray A SandlandAdrienne ShawJohn Tevelein &Barbara TeveleinSandra Velik & Leon VelikCOLLECTION SUPPORT1 June 2010 –31 December 2011We recognise withgratitude the followingindividuals whose annualgifts are so importantto the developmentof our collectionsSUPPORTERS OFASIAN ARTDirector’s CircleCaroline LiowSusan MorganSupporter’s CircleRose DownerJoan GunnSimon LohJanet Wang & Chris WangGim Wah Yeo AM JPSarah WattsCash Gifts to the Asian ArtAcquisition Fund > $500Canaan LawyersShirley X ChuWanghua ChuPeter ClementsMargaret ConeJim Cousins AO &Libby CousinsWilkin FonElderly Chinese Home IncMerran KelsallDavid LiDiana MorganKen OngMaudie Palmer AOMae Anna PangPeter PoonPhilip Ross & SophiaPavlovski-RossEva SweetMichael Watt QC &Cecilie HallJohn Webb OAMLyn Williams AMNGV CONTEMPORARYPresident’s CircleBill BownessDirector’s CircleDaniel Besen &Danielle BesenDominic Dirupo &Natalie DwyerSarah Watts & Ted WattsSupporter’s CircleRobyn BurkeAndrea CandianiHarry Curtis & Sue CurtisPresident’s CirclePeter Canet & Ivanka CanetDirector’s CircleMarjorie PinderSupporter’s CircleRon Hood & Sally HoodKenneth ReedCash Gifts to theDecorative ArtsAcquisition Fund > $500Michael Blanche &Lauraine DigginsAndrew DixonRon Hood & Sally HoodRobin HuntFrank C Jones& Jill JonesBetty Pizzey & John PIzzeySUPPORTERS OFINDIGENOUS ARTMajor GiftsWayne McGeoch &Vicki McGeochLou Senini & Mary SeniniJason Yeap OAM &Min Lee WongPresident’s CircleGeoffrey Allen AMJim Cousins AO &Libby CousinsBarry Fitzgerald &Helen FitzgeraldWayne McGeoch &Vicki McGeochDirector’s CircleRichard England &Harriet EnglandJudith Gorr & Leon GorrCrispin Gutteridge& Alison PylePeter Hanks QCJohn Karkar QCBori Liberman &Helen LibermanIan MacLean & Anne MacLeanSupporter’s CirclePaul Anastassiou SCNeville R BirdRosie BrennanMargaret Bullen &Ron VanderwalFiona BrockhoffJulian Burnside AO QCMichael Buxton &Janet BuxtonMichael Casper &Carol CasperNellie CastanKevin Collecutt &Margaret CollecuttTerry CutlerCash Gifts to theIndigenous ArtAcquisition Fund > $500The Allen ConsultingGroup Pty LtdPeter Berger &Carolyn BergerAngela BerryDaniel CrennanStephen Charles &Jenny CharlesGraeme EvansAmanda FrithAngela Gunn & Neil GunnRaymond Hind & Mary HindTony Hyams & Ann HyamsCatherine Lewis &Harry LewisJames Peters SCMichelle Quigley SCIan RogersGabriella RoyPhilip Solomon SCDelma ValmorbidaMatthew WalshMichael WrightPeter Zangmeister &Angelika ZangmeisterSUPPORTERS OFPRINTS & DRAWINGSMajor GiftsRick AmorThe Gordon DarlingFoundationChristine HealyThe Stuart Leslie FoundationHugh Morgan AC &Elizabeth MorganMargaret Stones AM MBELyn Williams AMClemenger AMLyn Williams AMEdward Billson &Lou Senini40 Jason Yeap OAMRon Dewhurst &for Melbourne campaign,Anne Wall-SmithColin Golvan SC &Elias Jreissati &The Hugh D T Williamson Margaret BillsonMary Senini41Katie Dewhursthelping to achieve ourMajor GiftsSarah WattsDeborah GolvanColleen JreissatiFoundationCharles Blackman OBE Lisl SingerMASTERPIECES FORPaula Foxgoal through annual giving Pauline GandelAngela Gunn & Neil Gunn Gordon Moffatt AM &Robert WilsonRobert BleakleyCarol SissonMELBOURNEDorothy Gibsonto 31 December 2011Vivien KnowlesCash Gifts to the NGVCJane GuyJacqueline MoffattPeter Wynne MorrisPeter BoothBen Slater & Joan SlaterThe 150th Anniversary Peter Griffin AMAllan Myers AO &Acquisition Fund > $500Peter Jopling QCSidney Myer Fund& Derek ParkerChris BoylanSally SmartCampaign for theKen Harrison & Jill Harrison President’s CircleMaria Myers AOPeter Bancroft OAM &Anthony Knight OAMThe Vizard FoundationJason Yeap OAM &Lennox & Edna Brewer Margaret Stones AM MBEDevelopment of theFraser HopkinsAndrew Abercrombie & The Neilson FoundationMarlyn Bancroft& Beverly KnightWestpac Banking Corporation Min Lee WongMemorial GiftAlice VaughanNGV Collection.NGV Women’s Association Shadda Abercrombie The Ian Potter FoundationJudge Kathryn KingsFred P ArcherMichael BuxtonSanto VersaceImelda and Geok Wong Harold J Campbell-Pretty & Michael Tong & Emily Tong SUPPORTERS OFTrevor McLeanCharitable TrustFounder BenefactorsHarold Campbell-Pretty & The Ralph & BarbaraCampaign PatronsFoundationKrystyna Campbell-Pretty Westpac Banking Corporation DECORATIVE ARTSKate McMillan SCMichael Abbott AO QCKrystyna Campbell-Pretty Ward-Ambler EndowmentThe Honourable DavidLeigh Clifford AO &John Fast & Jenny Fast Jason Yeap OAM &Diana MorganSUPPORT FOR NGVJan AltmannAnita CastanJeff Wassmann &Angel QC & Anita Angel Sue CliffordPeter Greenham &Min Lee WongMajor GiftsDavid Morrison &CONSERVATIONValma Angliss AMNellie CastanMelinda GeertzPeter Clemenger AM & Rino Grollo & DianaAnne GreenhamYulgilbar FoundationAustralian Decorative & FineEdith Morrison1 June 2010 –Anonymous (4)Sylvia ChernyJoe White BequestJoan ClemengerRuzzene GrolloKen Harrison & Jill HarrisonArts Society Yarra IncMossgreen Gallery31 December 2011Todd BarlinPatrick ChongGreg WoolleyJim Cousins AO &The Margaret Lawrence Barbara van Ernst AMPresident’s CircleHarold Campbell-Pretty &Arthur RoeYosl BergnerLeo Christie OAMImelda and Geok WongLibby CousinsBequestS Baillieu Myer ACKrystyna Campbell-PrettyAnthony G Stolarek &The Hugh D T Williamson Charles BrightPatrick Corrigan AMFoundation *^Sir Andrew Grimwade CBE Estate of KennethDirector’s CircleBruce ParncuttPeter Canet & Ivanka CanetBarbara StolarekFoundationPrimrose BrightDeidre CowanDianne Young& Lady GrimwadeGraham MilburnJohn Bates & Lorraine Bates Jason Yeap OAMHugh Morgan AC &Ricci SwartSusan MorganThe Reverend Ian Brown Ian DarlingAndrea ZieglerHugh M Morgan AC &The Neilson Foundation Neville BertalliElizabeth MorganMichael TrovatoJennifer BrownL Gordon Darling AC CMG Jenny ZimmerDirector’s CircleRick AmorChristine HealySupporter’s CirclePeter Di SciascioCash Gifts to the Prints& Drawings AcquisitionFund > $500Eric Harding & Athol HawkeMike JosephsonAlison InglisAudrey McLarenLeon Velik & Sandra VelikBarbara van Ernst AMSUPPORT FORSPECIAL PROJECTS1 June 2010 –31 December 2011Pauline GandelYulgilbar FoundationJoan Clemenger & PeterNGV Foundation Members^ Recent gift to 31December 2011* New memberPresident’s AdvisoryCouncilAllan Myers AO QC &Maria Myers AO ^The Ian Potter Foundation ^Loti Smorgon AOHonorary Life BenefactorsAnita AngelDavid Angel QCANZ Banking Group LimitedBarbara BlackmanBowness FamilyHelen BrackAlina CadeAlexander CensorEstate of MaxwellG Chapman ^Joan Clemenger ^Peter Clemenger AM ^Clemenger FoundationJim Cousins AO &Libby CousinsAlan Cowen &Mavourneen CowenPerri CuttenJames Fairfax ACJohn W FawcettPatricia FullertonPauline GandelRino Grollo & DianaRuzzene GrolloIan Hicks AMJohn HigginsEstate of Ruth MargaretFrances HoughtonElias Jreissati &Colleen JreissatiGordon Moffatt AM &Jacqueline MoffattDame Elisabeth Murdoch ACS Baillieu Myer AC& Sarah MyerThe Sidney & MerlynMyer FamilyNational AustraliaBank LimitedNGV Women’s AssociationBruce Parncutt &Robin Campbell ^Nigel & Patricia PeckFoundationLady Potter ACThe Pratt FoundationThe John T ReidCharitable TrustRio Tinto LimitedA G L Shaw AOShell Company ofAustralia LimitedPeter Szental &Lorraine ElsassBarbara van Ernst AM ^Timothy BrownK.M. Christensen & A.E.Bond Bequest FundThe Warren Clark BequestThe Eugenie CrawfordBequestKeith DeutsherNorma DeutsherLauraine DigginsBequest of Violet DulieuPaula FoxFiona FullertonJohn FullertonThe Victor Gibson &Dorothy Gibson BequestRobert GouldLady Hamer OAMHarrison Family TrustBequest of Kenneth HoodFraser HopkinsMarvin HurnallBarry Janes & Paul CrossDouglas KagiEstate of Elena KeownAndrew KlippelDinah KrongoldThe Thomas WilliamLasham FundColin Laverty OAM &Elizabeth LavertyTony LeeElizabeth J MorganLynton MorganThe Myer FoundationRoslyn Packer AOMoya PalmerMike ParrThe Tam & Anne PurvesMemorial GiftThe Peter & SusanRowland EndowmentMilton RoxanasJohn Schaeffer AOJune SherwoodMichael ShmithSpotlight StoresCharitable FoundationThe Rt Hon Sixth Earl &Countess of StradbrokeBequest of Mrs ElizabethSummons MBEBarbara TuckerPamela, Lady VesteyJohn WarnerWestpac Banking CorporationGovernorsDaryl AbrahamsGuy AbrahamsRoss Adler AC & Fiona AdlerFred P Archer CharitableTrust *^Rita AvdievMichael J Ball AMRoger Benjamin &Kate SandsMarcus Besen AO &Eva Besen AOShaun Dennison &Alison Dennison ^Peter Farrell AM *^Barrie I Follows AM, JPMargaret G FollowsChristine GeorgeIan GeorgeHenry GillespieGoldman Sachs & PartnersAustralia Pty LtdColin Golvan SC ^Peter Griffin AMP Hackforth-JonesJean HadgesKen Harrison & Jill HarrisonBill HensonDonald HoltJanet HoltAngela IslesMichael JohnsonTim JohnsonVivien JohnsonWilliam M P JonesPeter Jopling QCLily Kahan ^Anthony Knight OAM ^Beverly Knight ^Lab Architecture StudioTerence LaneNorma LeslieAlexander G LynchMarjory Lynch OAMCorbett Lyon & Yueji LyonHelen MacphersonSmith TrustBruce & Judy MatearFamily TrustMagda MatwiejewKevin McDonaldRodney MenziesMichael MoonHugh M Morgan ACMaureen MorriseyAlfred MullerAnnabel MyerRupert Myer AMFrank NichollsWilliam Nuttall &Annette ReevesLaurence O’Keefe &Christopher JamesJohn Olsen AO OBEJ P PalmerE M PatonJohn PlayfootRichard ReedDavid J RichardsRobert RooneyDavid RosenthalMargaret Ross AMR E Ross TrustJames RoweAlma RoxanasGabriella Roy ^Judy RoznerAnna SchwartzAlan Scott & Myra ScottEstate of Barbara Seddon

FellowsAnonymous (2)Elizabeth ArthurSamantha BaillieuWill BarrettMax Beck AMMichael BlanchePenleigh BoydAlice-Anne BoylanEd BoylanRobert BoynesEstate of Barbara BrashBrenmoss InvestmentsPty LtdRosie BrennanAndrew BrowneThe Buchan GroupEstate of Patrick ByrnePeter Canet & Ivanka Canet ^Anne CarinsEstate of Lady CarmenSandra CarnegieSir Roderick Carnegie ACJohn CatoFrancis ChaiWilliam Chanen AM& Ann ChanenBeatrice ChapmanGunter ChristmannLeigh Clifford AO &Sue CliffordChristine CollingwoodPeter Corrigan AMSue CourseThe Gordon DarlingFoundationBrian DavisDenise de GruchyRonald Dewhurst &Katie DewhurstNeil DonaldsonFrancis DunnWayne Eager &Marina StrocchiPeter FayWilliam FellowsAmanda FrithKerry GardnerDavid GoldbergerKate GollingsJudith Gorr ^Leon GorrBetty, Philip andWilliam GrahamWilliam GrahamAndrew GreenJennifer GreenAngus Grimwade &Karen GrimwadeJames HammondMichael Hamson &Susan HamsonEric HardingHari Harilela OBEAthol HawkeChristine HealyMargaret HendyThe Herald & WeeklyRosie & Solomon LewAnn Lewis AOIan LobbFrank McDonaldJohn McPheeMarie Theresa McVeigh TrustEstate of KennethGraham Milburn *^Naomi Milgrom AOAllan MitelmanKlaus MojeTraudl MoonSusan MorganJean MoriartyMandie MossBrenda Strang MouritzWilliam Begg Murdoch &Richard Martin O’DwyerClare MyersMichael Naphtali AMThe Neilson FoundationLady NolanMaev O’Collins MBEOrica LimitedThe Orloff FamilyCharitable TrustLouis PartosHans Pierrot & Merril PierrotJanet PurvesStuart Purves AMIan Reid & Julie ReidThe E & D RogowskiFoundationRae Rothfield ^Leslie RoweGraham Ryles OAM KSJ& Judith RylesScanlon FoundationAdrienne ShawMax SmithDavid SouthwickEstate of MaryMacrae StewartTakamasa TakahashiPeter Tallis & Mary TallisMichael Tong & Emily TongLuisa ValmorbidaLeon Velik ^Sandra Velik ^Steve Vizard & Sarah VizardAndrew G WheelerLloyd WilliamsRay Wilson OAMAngela WoodChristine WrightEstate of Donald Allan WrightFelicity WrightMark YoungSalvatore ZofreaMembersDavid Adams *^John Adams & Cecily AdamsGeoffrey Ainsworth AMVicki AinsworthRobert Albert AOJan AlbrechtTim Alder & Robyn AlderKate BêchetChristopher BeggPatricia Begg OAMIan BelshawPhillip Benjamin &Sandy BenjaminAnn BennettGordon Bennett (JohnCitizen Arts Pty Ltd)Carolyn BergerPeter BergerAngela BerryDaniel Besen &Danielle BesenDavid BlanchePenny Blazey ^Jan BoydMichael Boyd & Donna BoydYvonne BoydCaroline BrainBrigitte BraunThe Jack BrockhoffFoundationTania BroughamJasmine BrunnerJohn BrunnerPeter Buckley &Margaret BuckleyBulgari Australia Pty LtdMargaret BullenPeter Burch AM BMEdith BurgessDavid ByrneDominic ByrneMadeleine ByrneJanet Calvert-Jones AOJohn Calvert-Jones AMMichael Casper &Carol CasperJudy Cassab AOSusan CatoJon CattapanFrank Chamberlin &Danielle ChamberlinMark ChapmanStephen Charles &Jenny CharlesRic M Charlton AMSamuel ChazanAndrew ChurchyardRobert ClinchCecily ClosePatricia CodyPenny ColeingKathy ComportWilliam J Conn OAMCaroline Cornish &Philip CornishLaurence G Cox AO &Julie Ann CoxDavid CrawfordVerdine CrawfordMargaret CrothersPhilippa Currie & Peter CurrieVirginia DahlenburgDaimlerChryslerAustralia - PacificMark DaniellLord Francis Ebury &Lady Ebury ^Lindley EdwardsNick Edwards & Amanda HallPeter Edwards &Monica EdwardsRobert Edwards AOThe Dr Michael Elliott andMr Robert BlackburnBequest 2008David EllisJulie FarrellJohn Fasham & Beth FashamJanne Faulkner AMLouise FishmanBarry Fitzgerald &Helen FitzgeraldRosemary FlandersDiana FletcherSophie FlynnFondation Albert GleizesH M FraserDuncan Fraser SmithJon FriedrichRos FriedrichGallerie AustralisGallery Gabrielle PizziAnnemarie and ArturoGandioli-FumagalliFoundation (2008)Carrillo Gantner AONeilma GantnerDiana GazeSir James Gobbo ACCVO & Lady GobboChristine GoddenEthel GoldinGreg Goodman &Jennifer Goodman ^John Gough AO OBE &Rosemary GoughDita GouldMark GrantCatherine GrayHeather GreenLesley GriffinSir Andrew Grimwade CBEFred GrimwadeAnne Grindrod &John GrindrodAngela GunnJoan GunnStephen Hains & Jane HainsLance HammondJack Hansky AM &Paula HanskySarah HarleyClaudia HarperGlen Harrington &Robyn EasthamBrent HarrisFrances HattamJohn HattamKatherine HattamVictoria HattamRichard Havyatt &Louisa HavyattPonch HawkesDenis JoachimFrank Jones & Jill Jones ^Trevor JonesMarjorie Josephs-WilksBarbara Kane & Kevin KaneTrudy KennedySusan KennettMaureen KerridgeZara M Kimpton OAMRichard King & Andrea KingLou Klepac OAMKodak (Australasia) Pty LtdRichard Kopinski &Anna KopinskiCountess ZofiaKrasicka v. SiecinJoanne Lagerburg &Stephen LagerburgBetty LawsonJennifer LempriereLesley Kehoe GalleriesCatherine LewisJanet LimbGeoffrey Linton &Catherine LintonMary LipshutScott Livesey & Susie LiveseyJohn LoaneLillian ErnestineLobb BequestElizabeth H LoftusRobert G Logie-Smith& Sue Logie-SmithIan Lowe & Angela AdamsGraham M LudeckeGeorgina LynchPatricia MacdonaldAngus MackayDuncan MacqueenAndrew MarksEstate of Ouida MarstonRobert MartinFrederick Bruce MatearRobin MatthewsAlexandra MayesBarbara MayesJohn McCarthyVicki McGeoch &Wayne McGeoch ^Mark McKellar-Harding &Rachel McKellar-HardingM P McKenzieGraeme McKinnonDon McRaeSally McRaeMelbourne Art FairMarjory MillerJames MintoThelma MintoBequest of Mr GeorgeMitchellBeatrice MoignardJohn Desmond MooreDiana MorganHenrietta MorganSarah MorganWilliam MorganDan MossensonKean T. OoiKenneth W ParkDavid Payes & Sonia PayesChristine PeirsonGraham PeirsonYvonne PerretAnthony Pie & Betsy PieGwyn Hanssen Pigott OAMRoger Pitt &Deborah Bartlett PittJohn Pizzey & Betty PizzeyPlayoust Family FoundationAllan PowellBrendan Power &Diane PowerIan PrattDavid PriorElizabeth A PryceThe Thomas Rubie Purcell &Olive Esma Purcell TrustAnthony Rayward &Elizabeth RaywardScott RedfordPeter RedlichVivienne ReedAlan Rees & Jancis ReesRalph RenardArthur RoeAndrew RogersIan RogersDodi RosePhilip Ross & SophiaPavlovski-RossLisa SassellaDon SaundersKen Scarlett OAM ^Marian Scarlett ^Jessemyn SchippersPhillip Schudmak &Susan SchudmakCarol Schwartz AMOfelia ScottCaroline SearbyPaul SelzerBernard ShaferRobin L Sharwood AMJennifer ShawBen ShearerKate ShelmerdineStephen Shelmerdine AMViolet ShenoGene Sherman AM &Brian Sherman AMWilliam F Sibley TrustGary SingerHans SipJock SmibertSam Smorgon AOJohn SpoonerPetrus SpronkMatthew StaffordDavid Stephenson &Kate StephensonRobert StevensWilliam StevensJune StewartGillian StillwellDiana StockSunraysia FoundationLouisa M VassBret Walker SCSue Walker AMRobert WallaceDavid WalshWesley WaltersLeonard Warson &Elana WarsonGeorgina WeirEstate of Dr EricWestbrook CBDinah WhitakerIsobel WilliamsJann WilliamsJudy WilliamsPhilip Williams &Elizabeth WilliamsJohn WolseleyKaren WoodburyJames Woodhouse CromptonRobert Woodhouse CromptonAndrew WrightMyriam WylieAdam WynnEva WynnPatrick YangMichael YatesPeter Zangmeister &Angelika Zangmeister ^David Zerman & Sarah BarzelIndividual Endowed FundsLoti & Victor Smorgon FundBowness Family FundKM Christensen & AEBond BequestDocking Drawing FundJohn McCaugheyMemorial Prize TrustSusan Morgan Fundfor ConservationTimes LimitedGeoff Allen AMAleks DankoHilda HendersonAndrew Mountford &New Notified BequestsHeather HeinemannDianne YoungCentric Wealth42 Ian HigginsAndrew HodderJane HodderAmirah InglisWilliam IrvineAlastair JacksonCarolyn Kay & Simon SwaneyMerran KelsallInge King AMMem Kirby OAM ^Vivien KnowlesDavid Kolieb & Mira KoliebKPMG Pty LtdThe Margaret LawrenceBequestEstate of Duncan ElphinstoneMcBryde LearyHelga LeunigMichael LeunigVivien Anderson &Gilles TerrierBrook AndrewAnonymous (7)Jan Armstrong-ConnAshdene of AustraliaAustralian GalleriesRobin BadeJohn Baird & Diane BairdAndrew BakerRosalind BakerBank of QueenslandDavid BardasGeoffrey BartlettMichael E Bartlett &Mim BartlettNeil Batt AODorothy BaylisJohn BaylisAnthony DarlingDavid DarlingJoan DarlingMarilyn Darling ACMarina DarlingMichael G DarlingSarah DarlingPamela R DaviesSam Dawson &Louise DawsonSandra DentChris DeutscherAndy Dinan & MarioLo GiudiceThomas DixonMarion Downe ^Rose DownerWilliam DowneyBrian Doyne & Prue DoyneFenn HinchcliffeJanice HinderakerEmmanuel HirshChristopher Hodges& Helen EagerPeter Holly & Evalyn HollyRon Hood & Sally Hood ^Edward Horton & MicheleBonnett-HortonKaryn HughesAnne Hunt OAMDarvell Hutchinson AMChloe F HydeIrene IrvineAnne IsaacsonGeorge IvanovRobert Jacks AOJuliette, Danielle &Georgina JerumsSara MountfordReverend Nigel Murby Wright& Stephen Murby WrightPeter W MusgraveFiona MyerMartyn Myer AOPhilip S MyerSidney Myer AMFrank NadinicMichael NagyHarry NankinMaggie NanutJan NelsonAnthony NicholasCharles NodrumTony NortonSamuel NylanderJustin O’Day AMSally O’DayKathie SutherlandIrene SuttonRicci SwartEva SweetRobin Syme AMRosemary SymeJessica TaylorChris Thomas &Cheryl ThomasMargaret TollHelen TomDulcie TrethewieTrust Company LimitedMargaret Tuckson AMEstate of KennethAlbert TyasClaude UllinDelma Valmorbida &Tarcisio Valmorbida1June 2010 –31 December 2011Alan BlackPamela R DaviesSuzanne C DawbarnMarion FletcherSophie FlynnDawn HalesSue Harlow & Merv KeehnRobert Heinemann &Heather HeinemannKaryn HughesIrene IrvineIrene KearseyWilliam Mackie &Kathleen MackieVicki McGeoch &Wayne McGeochHilda HendersonMargaret HendyIan HigginsPeter Holly & Evalyn HollyFraser HopkinsKaryn HughesMarvin HurnallPeter IbbotsonAlison InglisIrene IrvineIrene KearseyRichard Kopinski &Anna KopinskiTony LeeWayne LeslieGeoffrey Linton &Catherine LintonJohn & Jacquie LlatseWilliam Mackie &Mark YoungNGV BUSINESS COUNCILMEMBERSAllens Arthur RobinsonSteve Clifford, Partner(Chairman)Amtrade InternationalRoss Adler AC, ChairmanANZ PrivateCatherine McDowell,Managing DirectorAustralia PostAhmed Fahour, ManagingDirector & ChiefExecutive OfficerBHP BillitonMarius Kloppers, ChiefExecutive OfficerInvestecJWT AustraliaNorton GledhillWilbow Group43Bequests Received1June 2010 –31 December 2011Estate of MaxwellG ChapmanThe Warren Clark BequestEstate of Ruth MargaretFrances HoughtonEstate of Elena KeownThe Thomas WilliamLasham FundThe Margaret LawrenceBequestMarie Theresa McVeigh TrustEstate of KennethGraham MilburnThe Thomas Rubie Purcell &Olive Esma Purcell TrustThe E & D RogowskiFoundationEstate of William F SibleyJoe White BequestThe Hugh D T WilliamsonFoundationLynton Morgan &Susan MorganBrenda MouritzLouis PartosGerry Phillips &Sharon PhillipsJohn Poynter AODodi RoseIrving Saulwick AOLou Senini & Mary SeniniMark YoungFelton SocietyRecognising those whohave made a notifiedbequest to the NGV.PatronHugh M Morgan ACMembersValma E Angliss AMAnonymous (7)Patricia Armstrong-GrantElizabeth ArthurJohn Baylis & Dorothy BaylisKate Bêchet & Helen DickIan BelshawDiana BenevoliAlan BlackIan BrownJennifer BrownTimothy BrownAnne CarinsAlex CensorFrancis ChaiFrank Chamberlin &Danielle ChamberlinChristine Collingwood ACJim Cousins AO &Libby CousinsPerri CuttenPamela R DaviesIvor Davis & Susie DavisSuzanne C DawbarnDenise de GruchySandra DentMarion DowneBrian Doyne & Prue DoyneMichael ElliottJohn FawcettMarion FletcherSophie FlynnBarrie Follows &Margaret FollowsPatricia FullertonArturo Gandioli-Fumagalli & AnnemarieGandioli-FumagalliMargaret GoodeWilliam GrahamAngela GunnJoan GunnLesley HaleDawn HalesSue Harlow & Merv KeehnAlistair HayRobert Heinemann &Kathleen MackieMarita MaddenRobert MartinDiane MatthewsKevin McDonald &Eunice McDonaldPatricia McDonaldVicki McGeoch &Wayne McGeochJoyce McGrath OAMMark McKellar-Harding &Rachel McKellar-HardingLynton Morgan &Susan MorganMaureen MorriseyJack Moshakis & Gill TaskerBrenda MouritzWilliam Begg Murdoch &Richard Martin O’DwyerLaurence O’Keefe &Christopher JamesMoya PalmerKenneth W ParkLouis PartosRuth PartridgeE M PatonGraham Peirson &Christine PeirsonGerry Phillips &Sharon PhillipsHans Pierrot & Merril PierrotBrendan Power &Diane PowerJohn Poynter AOIan PrattKen PriceDavid PriorDavid RichardsJudy RoachSally RobertsonAnthea RobinsonDodi RoseMarie RowlandGraham Ryles OAM KSJ& Judith RylesIrving Saulwick AOJessemyn SchippersLou Senini & Mary SeniniRobin L Sharwood AMProfessor Alan Shaw AOJune SherwoodBen Slater & Joan SlaterMax SmithDiana StockChristopher Thewlis &Mark DarbyshireDavid Trenerry &Elizabeth TrenerryGary Upfield & Robyn UpfieldBarbara van Ernst AMRobert WallaceHazel WestburyNoel WhaleDinah WhitakerJudy WilliamsAmanda WorthingtonPeter Wynne Morris& Derek ParkerBlueScope Steel LimitedGraham Kraehe 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RoadshowGraham Burke, ChiefExecutive OfficerWesfarmersPaul Meadows, GroupGeneral CounselNGV CORPORATEMEMBERSPremium MembersAlcoa

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