COMMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, THE HON EG WHITLAM, QC, MP, ON SIDNEY NOLAN'S GIFT OF PAINTINGS
vOR PnpsS 13 January 1975
COIN7, NT BY! THE PTZIMT? MI'TITE" I T1IF IION. V l W! T'~
MP., ON F'IPN\: Ty NOLAN'r 0117T Op
PAT '. TIT( 1;
I spetik for all Australians in expressing the
Government's profound gratitude for Mr. NZolan's gift
of paintings and our appreciolion of ' his splendir examn-ino
of -enerosity. Mr. S olAn' ift will he an invaluable
addition to ther national collection. It will add
immeasurably to the artistic hevritauo or the ination
whose reputation he has done ! o much to enhance ; ind
whose landscape and distinctive tr-ditions of folklore
and mythology lie has unrorpettably preserved in his PrTt.
LU" MINGT? A D, I5 SP
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