Continental Shift

Eugene Von Guèrard Mt William from Mt Dryden, Victoria 1857. Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 91.5 cm (sight), 76.2 x 106 cm (framed). State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased. 1971.

Continental Shift

Continental Shift is the new historical exhibition opening at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on Saturday 30 July. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Art Gallery of WA, the Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art, and the University of Western Australia. Fifteen American nineteenth-century landscape paintings are on show alongside Australian works of the same period from the WA State Art Collection.

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On Saturday 27 August, the Gallery is open 10am-3pm only as we prepare for the AGWA Foundation Gala supporting women in the arts. Some exhibition access will be disrupted with two Tracks We Share ground floor galleries closed. AGWA Rooftop bar will be closed, reopening at 2pm Sunday. Details