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Michael Leunig (b.1945)
Street Football c.1990 (detail)
watercolour, gouache and crayon on paper; 21.0 x 36.3 cm
Pictures Collection, H98.98/1
State Library of Victoria
Gift of Helga Leunig, 1996

Michael Leunig’s artwork is one of more than 170 items gathered from Australia’s state and territory libraries which, along with works from the National Library’s Collection, make up a major exhibition, National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries, showing around Australia, beginning at the National Library in December.

 

November 2005 Volume XVI Number 2

NATIONAL TREASURES FROM AUSTRALIA'S GREAT LIBRARIES

A preview of the major national exhibition opening at the Library in December, before touring Australia

A TASMANIAN TREASURE: HOBART'S ALLPORT LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Christopher Bantick introduces one of the Heritage Collections of the State Library of Tasmania

MIRROR OF THE WORLD: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AND UNESCO'S MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAM

Gwenda Beed Davey gives an update on a major international cultural initiative

SCHOLARS' VOICES

Ann Moyal samples an array of interviews from the Library’s Oral History Collection

EBENEZER EDWARD GOSTELOW--A NAME WITH WHICH TO CONJURE

Christobel Mattingley looks at the lifework of one of Australia’s most significant nature painters

FRIENDS

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

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