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Peter Tomory, former Assistant Regional Director for the Arts Council of
Great Britain, was appointed Director of the Gallery in 1956. He built
up a collection of modern French sculpture, increased the purchase and
exhibition of New Zealand art, expanded the Gallery’s Research Library
and initiated the publication of the
Art Gallery Quarterly, a review of
acquisitions which was published until 1978. Tomory received
international acclaim for his discovery in Dunedin of an outstanding
group of 37 drawings by Henry Fuseli. Purchased for the Gallery, the
collection includes drawings from most decades of the artist’s œuvre
and from almost all his subjects - the Bible, ancient history, classical
mythology, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, the Nibelungenlied and
the contemporary novel Undine.
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