Art

Betty Churcher: Notebooks

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June 2011, no. 332
Art

Betty Churcher: Notebooks

Reviewed by •
June 2011, no. 332

En plein musée

Alan Dodge

 

Notebooks
by Betty Churcher
Miegunyah Press, $44.95 pb, 256 pp, 9780522858426

 

In May 1990, Betty Churcher, then director of the National Gallery of Australia, Bill Wright, deputy director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and I stood outside what had once been the seat of Count Ostermann. This impressive building sits right off the Garden Ring, which surrounds inner Moscow. It is now the All-Russian Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum. All three of us, on our first trip to Moscow, were investigating the possibility of putting together a major exhibition of Russian and Soviet art.

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Alan R. Dodge

Alan R. Dodge has been in the art museum business for over thirty-eight years. He came to Australia in 1974 from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. where he was an education curator. In Canberra he was one of the early staff of the new Australian National Gallery (now NGA) first as Senior Research officer, then as head of publications, Curator of European and American Art, and Senior Advisor, Special Exhibitions and Development. In 1997 he was appointed Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, a position he held for eleven years before retiring in late 2007. He was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2004 and was made an AM in the Order of Australia in 2008. Currently he acts as an Art Adviser and is a member of six boards and Chair of the Murdoch University Art Board. Over the last two decades he has pursued an intense interest in Russian art and culture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Alan R. Dodge

Alan R. Dodge has been in the art museum business for over thirty-eight years. He came to Australia in 1974 from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. where he was an education curator. In Canberra he was one of the early staff of the new Australian National Gallery (now NGA) first as Senior Research officer, then as head of publications, Curator of European and American Art, and Senior Advisor, Special Exhibitions and Development. In 1997 he was appointed Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, a position he held for eleven years before retiring in late 2007. He was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2004 and was made an AM in the Order of Australia in 2008. Currently he acts as an Art Adviser and is a member of six boards and Chair of the Murdoch University Art Board. Over the last two decades he has pursued an intense interest in Russian art and culture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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