1951

In 1951, Nornie Gude once again won the F E Richardson prize for watercolour with her work Flower piece, with Charles Bush winning the J H McPhillimy prize for oil painting with his work Snow near Hampton Court, England.  

Instead of holding educational lectures in this year, Geelong Gallery held a musical event, with the Geelong Symphony Orchestra and the Geelong Madrigal Choir performing inside the H P Douglass Gallery. 

They performed Dido and Aeneas, an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, for a crowd of 400 people into the space. Locals Peggy Knibbs and Harold Strickland played the roles of Dido and Aeneas, while George Logie-Smith conducted the orchestra. 

Later in this year, George and the GSO performed once again inside the Douglass Gallery, this time playing a selection of classical pieces by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Béla Bartók and Joseph Haydn, amongst others.