Robert Campbell (art gallery director)
Robert Campbell (1902–1972), director of the Art Gallery of South Australia , the first director of the Queensland Art Gallery and also a painter in his own right. In 1955 a portrait of him by painter Ivor Hele won the Archibald Prize.
In May 1955 while director of the AGSA, he considered it was important to establish an Aboriginal art collection, which extended beyond the anthropological objects held by the museum. He has also written a book on Tom Roberts.
External links
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- Short history of the Queensland Art Gallery
- Art of Arnhem Land exhibition
- Tom Roberts - Bibliography
- J S Battye Library of West Australian History Private Archives – Collection Listing (pdf)
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