Portrait of a Collection: TarraWarra Museum of Art printmaking Bates Smart and McCutcheon

Bates Smart and McCutcheon

Accompanied by archival illustrations and 18 essays from diverse contributors

The book brings together a lively mix of sweets

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Portrait of a Collection: TarraWarra Museum of Art printmaking Bates Smart and McCutcheonTarraWarra Museum of Art in the Yarra Valley holds one of the countrys finest collections of Australian art from the 1930s to the present day. Established through the generous donation of founding patrons, the late Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO, the museums collection follows three prevailing themes: landscape, the solitary figure and abstraction. I wanted to get to know a lot of artists to find out what motivated them, why they did what they did and