Permanent Collection | Geelong Gallery
Visit the Douglass and Hitchcock galleries to view works from Geelong Gallery's permanent collection.
Current display includes recent acquisitions alongside much-loved collection works by Frederick McCubbin Sally Smart Kait James Danila Vassilieff Marlene Gilson and more.
Established in 1896 the Geelong Gallery is one of Australia's leading and oldest regional art galleries. The Gallery's significant collection of over 6000 works includes Australian and international paintings works on paper sculpture and decorative arts.
The Gallery is home to a number of iconic Australian paintings including Gu©rard von Guerard's The barter (1854) The Weatherboard Falls (1863) and View of Geelong (1856) Louis Buvelot's On the Woods Point Road (1872) Frederick McCubbin's A bush burial (1890) and Russell Drysdale's Hill End (1948).
The greatest strengths of the Gallery's permanent collection are colonial paintings (including a splendid array of early images of Geelong and its wider region such as John Skinner Prout's lithograph Geelong (1847) and Alexander Webb's Yarra Street Geelong (1872)); colonial metalwork (including Edward Fischer's Geelong gold cup (1890)); English painted porcelain from 1750 to 1850 (Worcester Buckingham Palace card tray (c. 1840-45)); works on paper (19th century to the present); and modern and contemporary Australian paintings sculpture and decorative arts (including works by Fred Williams Ann Thomson Peter Booth Juan Davila Rosalie Gascoigne Jan Senbergs and John Brack (The hunt (1988)).
Visit the Gallery to view works from the permanent collection as well as a vibrant program of special exhibitions.
Entry to the Gallery is free.
❊ When ❊
Happens: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Times: 10am - 5pm
❊ Where ❊
Geelong Gallery View Venue
Little Malop Street Geelong Victoria 3220 Map
✆ Venue: 61 3 5229 3645 | Event: 61 3 5229 3645
❊ Web Links ❊
→ Permanent Collection | Geelong Gallery→ www.geelonggallery.org.au
→ www.onlygeelong.com.au
Disclaimer: Check with the venue (web links) before making plans, travelling or buying tickets.
Accessibility: Contact the venue for accessibility information.
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