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James Mollison: the public art teacher who brought the Blue Poles to Australia

  • Written by Sue Rabbitt Roff, Researcher, Social History/Tutor in Medical Education, University of Dundee
Then prime minister Gough Whitlam and director of the Australian National Gallery James Mollison in front of Blue Poles in 1973.© Pollock-Krasner Foundation. ARS/Copyright Agency

James Mollison, the founding director of the National Gallery of Australia, died on Sunday at the age of 88. He was a pivotal force in Australian art collecting,...

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