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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF COLLECTING
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF COLLECTING: THE JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY
https://issuu.com/designinformation/docs/jag_book_2010
At the turn of the twentieth century, when Johannesburg was still
hardly formed, a woman named Florence Phillips had a vision for the
dusty mining camp: she wanted it to be an arts and culture centre in the
British colony. Her efforts to start a municipal art collection for the
city, and to build a place in which the collection could be housed, are
the origins of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). Today, far from the
exemplary colonial art collection Lady Phillips had envisaged for the
city, the Johannesburg Art Gallery’s collection is one of the most
important representatives of contemporary, historical and traditional
southern African art in the world. The Johannesburg Art Gallery
centenary catalogue commemorates the hundredth year of the founding of
the Johannesburg collection by providing readers with a consolidated
showcase of some of the finest pieces owned by JAG.
