The Joseph Brown Collection comprises works of art donated to the National Gallery of Victoria in 2004 by the collector and art dealer Joseph Brown. The collection is displayed in the

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, part of the NGV. More than 150 works are on display at the centre. The collection comprises varied Australian art from different periods, including portraits painted by many well-known artists. The display gives a history of Australian art. It includes engravings from the first days of the colony and early European looking landscapes of Australia, and

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era paintings from the late 19th century, and post impressionist works of the early 20th century. The

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' Angry Penguins' school of the 1940s is represented, as are colour field and abstract painting. Many

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and post-modern Australian painters of the later 20th century are also on display. A few works by Australian Aboriginal artists are also included.

Artists included

The collection includes the following artists:The Australian - Joseph Brown: Mentor and collector who made a difference
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Wes Walters Wes(ley) Walters (1928-2014) was an Australian artist and winner of the Archibald Prize. Walters was born in Mildura, Victoria, in 1928. He was a realist portrait painter and abstract artist who painted nearly 200 portraits of leading Australians ...

* Eugene von Guerard - ''Yalla-Y-Poora'' *

Tom Roberts Thomas William Roberts (8 March 185614 September 1931) was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. After studying in Melbourne, he travelled to Europe i ...

Frederick McCubbin Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian artist, art teacher and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, McCubb ...

- ''Autumn Memories'' * E. M. Boyd *

E. Phillips Fox Emanuel Phillips Fox (12 March 1865 – 8 October 1915) was an Australian impressionism, impressionist painter. After studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne, Fox travelled to Paris to study in 1886. He remained in ...

Roger Kemp Francis Roderick Kemp AO, OBE, (Eaglehawk, 3 July 1908 - Melbourne 14 September 1987), known as Roger, was one of Australia's foremost practitioners of transcendental abstraction. Kemp developed a system of symbols and motifs which were deployed ...

* John Olsen * Margaret Preston * John Perceval - ''Floating Dock and Tugboats'' * John Brack - '' Nude With Dressing Gown'' *

Peter Booth Peter Booth (born 2 November 1940) is an Australian figurative and a surrealist painter, and one of the key late-20th-century Australian artists. His work is characterised by an intense emotional power of often dark narratives, and esoteric sy ...

Grace Cossington Smith Grace Cossington Smith (20 April 189220 December 1984) was an Visual arts of Australia, Australian artist and pioneer of Modernist art, modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism to her home country. ...

Peter Purves Smith Peter Purves Smith (26 March 191223 July 1949), born Charles Roderick Purves Smith, was an Australian painter. Born in Melbourne, Purves Smith studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London and under progressive art teacher George Bell ...

* Arthur Boyd - ''Bride and Groom by the Creek'' * John Russell - ''Almond Tree'' and ''Blossom and Rough Seas'' * Brett Whiteley * Fred Williams - ''Cricketer''

References

{{reflist Australian art Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria