Art
Artist's studio at Tasma Terrace
Newspaper clipping reporting on the new studio and showroom created at Tasma Terrace for the artist, Julia de Ville, jeweller and taxidermist.
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Blue trees
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.
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Collection a Cut Above
A report on local resident, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, donating a large collection of Dior dresses to the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Community minded people of East Melbourne
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.
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Early Melbourne Paintings
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.
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Herald Outdoor Art Show, c.1954
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.
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Krystyna Campbell-Pretty interview
Newspaper clipping of interview with Krystyna Campbell-Pretty. She talks about her life, her philanthropy and her love of art.
Campbell-Pretty is a resident of East Melbourne
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Legend of Fire mural
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.
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Ola Cohn and The Fairies' Tree
Postcard showing photograph of Ola Cohn at work carving The Fairies' Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens. The photo appeared in the Argus newspaper on 3 November 1932.
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Postcards from the Raj
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.
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