Profile - Art Gallery NSW Foundation

Published in Art Gallery of NSW Foundation News

Excerpt

Ask David Greatorex about benefaction at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and there’s a memory that burns too bright to ignore. He’s back in 1978. Early days in the reign of Edmund Capon, then the new director of the Gallery, whose first significant acquisition upon his arrival in Sydney was ‘a very expensive and exquisite’ yellow ochre Tang dynasty equestrian tomb figure (c700CE).