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Bill Henson
Paris Opera Project 1990-91
Type C colour photograph; 125.0 x 125.0 cm
The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth

SUBLIME
25 YEARS OF THE WESFARMERS COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN ART
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
12 February - 26 April 2004

Over the past quarter of a century the Wesfarmers Collection has grown to be one of the largest and most important corporate collections in Australia. For the first time, visitors to the National Library will be able to see highlights of this exceptional collection--normally housed in Perth--that have been curated into an exhibition based on interpretations of the sublime.

Sublime: 25 Years of the Wesfarrners Collection of Australian Art contains paintings, prints and photographs by 47 Australian artists including Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Streeton, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd, Ian Fairweather, Rover Thomas, Emily Kngwarreye, Rosalie Gascoigne and Bill Henson.

 

March 2004 Volume XIV Number 6

THE LENS OF AN EARTH SCIENTIST

Nancy Robinson Flannery looks at the life, work and donations of postwar geologist Dr Alick William Green Whittle, 1920-1987

BIRDS

Author of the Introduction to the Library’s recently released, expanded edition of Judith Wright’s Birds, the poet’s daughter, Meredith McKinney, reveals the background to the poems in this publication

CORROBOREE

Researching the Library’s extensive collection of dance materials, Michelle Potter analyses the success of the three danced interpretations of John Antill’s musical composition Corroboree

SAMUEL SHUMACK FRONTIER TALES OF OLD CANBERRA

Delving into the Manuscript Collection, Judy Cannon discovers some fascinating tales of the everyday lives and experiences of early Canberrans by the 19th-century chronicler Samuel Schumack

TWO MEN AND A BRIDGE

The Votes and Proceedings of the early years of the New South Wales Legislative Council reveal much of the social, economic and administrative history of the growing colony, as illustrated by Russell Douse’s research

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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