SHOE TREE
c. 1914
Medium
Pair, wooden, vamp & toe shape only with adjustable metal fitting to heel
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Pegg Milroy, 1979
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
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Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
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Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
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Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
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Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
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Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
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Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Boots
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, London (fashion house); Vivienne WESTWOOD (designer)
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
DAMASK
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Textile
William MORRIS
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
The victory of faith
St George HARE
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
FRAGMENT
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Glove purse
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
Pregnancy ensemble
(ENGLAND)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Sampler
Margaret FOSTER