Art Museum

Other Cultural Collections

The Dunmoochin Foundation Art Collection

La Trobe University is the custodian for the Dunmoochin Foundation Art Collection from the estate of artist Clifton Pugh. There are some three hundred works of art by Pugh and his artist friends who spent time at his Cottles Bridge property 'Dunmoochin'. The collection includes examples of Pugh's formal and intimate portraits, as well as works dealing with environmental issues and the artist's limited edition prints. Among the friends whose works are in the collection are Rick Amor, John Brack, Frank Hodgkinson and John Olsen.

Web: www.dunmoochin.org

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The Ethnographic Collection

The Ethnographic Collection comprises mainly gifts from generous donors of artefacts and paintings collected from Papua New Guinea and Australia, plus items collected on field trips by academics. Selected items are exhibited alongside the contemporary art collection.

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F M Courtis Collection

Fred Courtis, then Head of Art Education at the Bendigo Teachers' College, commenced this collection of Australian works of art in 1955. Artists represented include Sir Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Sir William Dargie and Leonard French. The teaching collection was developed to foster a national identity through the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts.

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Trendall Collection of Antiquities

Other cultural collections held at the Bundoora campus include the and the loan collection of Mediterranean Antiquities that are available for research purposes.

A D (Dale) Trendall was one of the greatest historians of Greek art of the twentieth century and the world authority on the red-figured vases produced in the Greek colonies and native towns of South Italy and Sicily during the Classical period (5 th and 4 th centuries). Professor Trendall believed that Australian scholars had made, and could continue to make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the colonial Greeks in South Italy . To this end, he bequeathed his vast archive of over 40,000 photographs of South Italian red-figure vases and his extraordinary personal library of books and journals on Classical civilisation to La Trobe University to form the basis for a Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies that is located on the Bundoora campus.

A D Trendall Research Centre
Research enquiries may be made to

Dr Ian McPhee
Ph: (613) 8479 2354
Fax: (613) 9479 1827
Email: i.mcphee@latrobe.edu.au

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Victorian Ceramics' Group Collection

The Phyllis Palmer Gallery is situated on the first floor of the Visual Arts Building. It is a professional exhibiting space that is available for exhibitions by Australian and International artists, as well as staff and senior students.

The University is the custodian for the Victorian Ceramics' Group collection of Australian ceramics. Selections of this important collection are shown each year in the Phyllis Palmer Gallery.