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The American artist Gordon Samstag famously made one of the great cultural bequests benefitting the arts in this country, enabling Australian visual artists to develop their skills and abilities internationally – through the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships. Proudly published by the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art for the University of South Australia’s 25th birthday celebrations – and the 25th anniversary of the Samstag Scholarships – this groundbreaking book charts the lives and careers of Anne and Gordon Samstag, and their sixteen years of living and working in Australia and eventual return to America. Who were the enigmatic Samstags? Intensely private, each boasting rich ancestral family trees, philanthropy was in their blood. This is their story.

Dr Lea Rosson DeLong is an art historian, curator and editor, working mainly in American art of the 1930s and contemporary art. Born in Louisiana, she grew up in Oklahoma and Nashville, Tennessee. Her BA is from the University of Oklahoma and her MA and PhD are both from the University of Kansas. She has curated exhibitions and been the author of books on Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe and other American artists. A frequent guest curator for the University Museums of Iowa State University, she has also worked as a curator at the Des Moines Art Center and has taught at Drake University in Des Moines and Iowa State University in Ames. Ross Wolfe is an artist, administrator and writer. He studied art at the National Art School, Sydney, from 1962, later completing a Diploma in Art at Alexander Mackie College, School of Art, Sydney (now University of New South Wales School of Art and Design) and, in 2003, a Master of Arts in Fine Art, at RMIT University, Melbourne. In 1979 he was founding editor and publisher of a seminal visual arts journal, Art Network magazine, and subsequently held influential roles in Australian arts administration. He was director of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council from 1983, where he established the National Exhibitions Touring Support Program and secured formal government agreements for a permanent Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He also initiated the Australia Council’s very first Emeritus Awards program for artists. He was deputy director at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 1988 and, from 1992, inaugural director of the philanthropic Samstag Program at the University of South Australia, from which he is now retired.

*Provides a history of Australian art with a focus on South Australian art from 1960 to 2016
*Interesting story of the intersection between Australian and American art in the 20th century, from the personal perspectives of Anne and Gordon Samstag
*A fascinating story of two American artists, drawing on engaging and illuminating cultural references

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