Sir Robert Menzies
Director of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and
Director of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and
Director of Australia from 1949 to 1966
Sir Robert Menzies by Eric Westbrook, c.1960, when Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
Sir Robert Menzies by Eric Westbrook, c.1960, when Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
J. S. Macdonald, 1936–41
Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, 1942–55
Eric Westbrook, 1956–73
Gordon Thomson, 1973–75
Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, 1942–55
Eric Westbrook, 1956–73
Gordon Thomson, 1973–75
Melbourne artists in 1975 protested at the NGV about their relationship with the NGV.
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For some reason, it was not the NGV Director who addressed the protesters' grievances but Eric Westbrook, by then several years retired from that role and since installed at the new Victorian Ministry for the Arts.
In this photo from that protest, Eric Westbrook is standing to the left; in the centre, representing the artists, is John Davis; to the right, arguing for other related matters is Terry Smith. (A detailed account around this event can be read in Jonathan Holmes' Going Solo: a report on survey exhibitions in Australian public museums in the 1970s.)
In this photo from that protest, Eric Westbrook is standing to the left; in the centre, representing the artists, is John Davis; to the right, arguing for other related matters is Terry Smith. (A detailed account around this event can be read in Jonathan Holmes' Going Solo: a report on survey exhibitions in Australian public museums in the 1970s.)
photo : FIAPCE
Dr Eric Westbrook
Prime Minister of the NGV from 1956 to 1973
above : self-sketch by Eric Westbrook, 1950.
above : self-sketch by Eric Westbrook, 1950.
collection National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
below : sketch-in protest at NGV, 2004.
collection AAA_Art Archive Australia
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