I thought I would entrust the narrative of the early years of Australian art, as well as its subsequent Europeanization, to the kangaroo, a symbolic animal of Oceania that will be used as a conduit between Aboriginal and Western figurative expression.
Barry HumphriesPeyton Skipwith writes: You are right to mention Barry Humphries’s (obituary, April 22) collection of works by Charles Conder. In 1969 The Fi
Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors