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| Rupert Bunny 1864–1947 Mme Sada Yacco ‘Le Shogun’ (scène de la foile) c. 1907 oil on canvas The Stuartholme-Behan Collection of Australian Art, The University of Queensland |
The University of Queensland Art Collection includes over 3,000 artworks and is Queensland’s second largest public art collection.
With a history of some six decades of collection development, the University’s Collection comprises works by major Australian artists from the colonial period to the present, as well as a significant collection of Chinese antiquities. In 2004, the University initiated the National Collection of Artists’ Self Portraits, an important focus area within the Collection.
National Collection of Artists' Self Portraits
UQ Art Museum launched the National Collection of Artists' Self Portraits in 2004.
Copyright and Collection policies
To reproduce works featured in this website and works held in The University of Queensland Art Collection, permission must be obtained both from UQ Art Museum and the copyright holder.
Donations, Cultural Gifts, and Bequests
Collection focus
Gifted Collections
The Stuartholme-Behan Collection
The name of The Stuartholme-Behan Collection celebrates both the Stuartholme School, where the Collection was initially housed, and Dr Norman Behan (1908–2000), medical practitioner, art collector and philanthropist, who purchased and gifted the works to the School in the early 1960s.
In 1975 the Collection was relocated to The University of Queensland, where it is held on long-term loan. Revealing the breadth of Dr Behan’s interest in the visual arts, the Collection ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s and includes major works by artists such as Rupert Bunny, Bessie Gibson, George Lambert, Max Meldrum and Jon Molvig.
Search the Collections
Public online access to The University of Queensland Art Collection will be availiable here 15 February 2012. Research questions on artworks held in the Collection should be directed to the Collections Coordinator.
