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Collection Highlights

John BRACK
Collins St, 5p.m.
 1955 Katsushika HOKUSAI
The great wave off Kanagawa
 (c. 1830)
from the Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji series 1826-33 Emily Kam Kngwarray
Anwerlarr anganenty (Big yam Dreaming)
 1995 Lee KRASNER
Combat
 1965 Yayoi KUSAMA
Flower obsession
 (2016-2017) Pablo PICASSO
Weeping woman
 (1937) Margaret PRESTON
Flannel flowers
 1938 Grace Cossington SMITH
The Bridge in-curve
 (1930) Giambattista TIEPOLO
The Banquet of Cleopatra
 (1743-1744) John William WATERHOUSE
Ulysses and the Sirens
 1891

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Indigenous Voices of Creative Assertion and Resistance

By Judith Ryan AM

 She Is Like No Other: A call and response to Umma (Mother)

By Kimberley Moulton, Yorta Yorta

 Aboriginal Feminism and Gender

By Claire G. Coleman

 Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV

By Judith Ryan AM
Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age

This eBook, produced for the exhibition of the same name, considers a range of artists’ responses to and engagement with television, sets and screens, visual broadcasting and the transmission of information.

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Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Gäna (Self)

By Judith Ryan AM

 Julian Rosefeldt In the Land of Drought

By Katharina Prugger

 Adam Goodrum, Arthur Seigneur Bloom, cabinet

By Ewan McEoin

 Aïda Muluneh Amusement at the park

By Susan van Wyk
The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection

Acquired by the NGV from 2015 with the support of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, in memory of her late husband Harold Campbell-Pretty, The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection is an acknowledgment of the growing importance of archival resources within museums today.

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