Art
Blue trees
Catalogue number:
emvf0628 Content or description:
Newspaper clippings from 2005 about artist's controversial plans to paint the elm trees in Queen's Walk, Yarra Park blue in the name of art. The plan won State Government funding but was knocked back by the City Council.
- 1695 reads
Community minded people of East Melbourne
Catalogue number:
emdf0157 Content or description:
A page of four pen and ink sketches with collective title of 'Community minded people of East Melbourne'. Each sketch shows a small group of people stopped for a casual chat, their common interests clearly defined: the Garden Club, books, children and (possibly) daily life.
- 1435 reads
Early Melbourne Paintings
Catalogue number:
embk0116 Content or description:
Catalogue of an exhibition of early Melbourne paintings on loan from various institutions but mainly from the Roy Morgan Research Centre Collection.The exhibiton was held first at Morgans 401, 401 Collins Street, Melbourne and later at Government House.
All works are illustrated in colour and illustrate Melbourne's earliest days from 1840 to 1906.
- 301 reads
Herald Outdoor Art Show, c.1954
Catalogue number:
emdf0168 Content or description:
Digital copies of coloured slides. Two photos taken during the Herald Outdoor Art Show which was held annually in the Treasury Gardens for a week each December from 1953. One photo shows patrons enjoying refreshments on the lawns; while the other shows the crowd filing past past the paintings which are attached to cyclone wire fencing.
- 1978 reads
Legend of Fire mural
Catalogue number:
emvf0192 Content or description:
Short critical review of the Legend of Fire mural on the façade of the Eastern Hill Fire Station in Albert Street, along with an explanation of the legend. The mural was designed by Harold Freedman. Photo.
- 2534 reads
Postcards from the Raj
Catalogue number:
emvf0317 Content or description:
Newspaper clippings about the Johnston Collection. Includes articles on new book entitled Indian Painters - British Masters about the Company Paintings in the collection. Also articles about various exhibitions. Photos.
- 1818 reads
St. Patrick's and Others
Catalogue number:
emav0001-d2 Content or description:
Three short films:
1. Semper Fidelis - a documentary made to commemorate the centenary of St. Patrick's College, 1954.
2.Yarra Scenes - snippets of life on and around the Yarra.
3. H.O.A.S. - the Herald Outdoor Art Show in Treasury Gardens, 1968.
- 1506 reads
St. Patrick's and Others
Catalogue number:
emav0001-d1 Content or description:
Three short films:
1. Semper Fidelis - a documentary made to commemorate the centenary of St. Patrick's College, 1954.
2.Yarra Scenes - snippets of life on and around the Yarra.
3. H.O.A.S. - the Herald Outdoor Art Show in Treasury Gardens, 1968.
- 1627 reads