Intro
Contents
PREFACE A Personal Discoveryof Art in the Country
INTRODUCTION Times When the Arts Could Thrive
CHAPTER 1 An Extraordinary Man -Ballarat Art Gallery, 1884
CHAPTER 2 Old Timers Wanting More - Bendigo Art Gallery, 1887
CHAPTER 3 Not the Archibald - Warrnambool Art Galleryand Museum, 1886/7
CHAPTER 4 Trying to Keep Up - Geelong Art Gallery, 1896
CHAPTER 5 Comfortable Castlemaine,1913/1931
CHAPTER 6 A Small Civic Start - Shepparton, 1936
CHAPTER 7 Some Early (Halting) Moves to Support theProvincial Galleries
CHAPTER 8 Mildura - Intrigue,Community Conflictand Individual Drive
CHAPTER 9 Getting the Galleries Together - A 'Reluctant' National Gallery
CHAPTER 10 Hamilton - Squatter Legacies - Upstaging the Others?, 1961
CHAPTER 11 Benalla - Patronage in a Community Divided
CHAPTER 12 Centralism and the Struggle for Control
CHAPTER 13 Smaller Towns Seeking a Place at the Table
CHAPTER 14 Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement, 1965 - What Qualifies as a Gallery?
CHAPTER 15 Regionalism as a Guiding Concept
CHAPTER 16 A New Constitution (RGAV), 1970
CHAPTER 17 Ambitious but Ambivalent- Westbrook and the NGV
CHAPTER 18 Suburban Rivalry - McClelland Gallery, 1961 and Mornington Peninsula Gallery, 1969
CHAPTER 19 Gippsland Competitors - Sale, 1965 and Morwell, 1971
CHAPTER 20 It's Too Much Work - The Battle for an Executive Officer
CHAPTER 21 Warrnambool -Cleaning with Ajax
CHAPTER 22 Bendigo - Shaken, Not Stirred
CHAPTER 23 Ballarat - Flagging Its Wares
CHAPTER 24 Geelong - One Directionor Multiple Directors?
CHAPTER 25 Hamilton - Political Favoritism and the Sandby Collection
CHAPTER 26 The Smaller Galleries Hit Their Straps
CHAPTER 27 Mildura Arts Centre, 1966 - Boot Him Out!
CHAPTER 28 Geelong Arts Centre - Infighting in an Ugly Town.

CHAPTER 29 New Beginnings, or the Beginning of the End?
CHAPTER 30 The Galleries Today - Public Response and the Future
Notes
APPENDIX Public Galleries Under the PGAV in 2018
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index.