Subject files, 1957-1990

Component identifier:

Series 4

Content Summary:

The correspondence files which were kept by Pugh in subject order mostly date from the 1980s.

The correspondence, both personal and business, is with art galleries, publishers, politicians and fellow artists. There is also correspondence on Dunmoochin, his Order of Australia, the sale of Percy Deane's collection of cartoons to the National Library, the project he initiated to decorate Melbourne's trams, Ivan Smith's The death of a wombat (drawings by Pugh) and other publications, and the swimming pool he had built at Dunmoochin.

Correspondents include John Brackenreg (Artarmon Galleries), Georgina Bolitho (Bolitho Gallery), Judith Behan (Chapman Gallery), Stuart Gerstman (Stuart Gerstman Galleries), Ruth Prowse (Huntley Gallery, Canberra), Brian Johnstone (Johnstone Gallery) Jan Minchin (National Gallery of Victoria), Judy Cassab, Richard Griffin, Keith Hounslow, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Bernard Smith, Clyde Cameron, Doug McClelland, Sir Andrew Grimwade, Arthur Gietzelt, Sue Elbury and Robert Sessions.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were purchased by the Library from the Dunmoochin Foundation, the Trustees of Clifton Pugh's Estate, in 1996.

Names:

Dunmoochin Foundation

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