One Hundred Years Of Collecting; The Johannesburg Art Gallery 1910-2010 by Jillian Carmen

ISBN: 9780620488587

Publisher: Design Magazine - 2010

Hardcover, 200 Pages

At the turn of the twentieth century, when Johannesburg was still hardly formed, a woman named Florence Phillips had a vision for the dusty mining camp: she wanted it to be an arts and culture centre in the British colony. Her efforts to start a municipal art collection for the city, and to build a place in which the collection could be housed, are the origins of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). Today, far from the exemplary colonial art collection Lady Phillips had envisaged for the city, the Johannesburg Art Gallerys collection is one of the most important representatives of contemporary, historical and traditional southern African art in the world. The Johannesburg Art Gallery centenary catalogue commemorates the hundredth year of the founding of the Johannesburg collection by providing readers with a consolidated showcase of some of the finest pieces owned by JAG.