Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

,r 18 December 1982 Pl,e,~sµre,s of~.-an art co.llector .STUDENTS graduating from Queensland Uni– ,ersity last night were urged ro consider the plea– .111res of becoming pri,ate art ~ollectors. That recommendation came from one of Queens– land's most prominent art collectors, Dr Norman Behaa, who addressed more than 200 agricultural science, arc•llecture, music and social work gradu– ates at Mayne Hall. During the ceremony, Dr Behan was presented ,- with the honorary degree or Doctor or Laws for his senices to the unhenity and to Queensland. Regarded as the highest honor the uniwersity can bestow, the degree was presented to Dr Behan by the Uninrslty Chancellor, Sir Waller Campbell. Dr Behan, 73, graduated in medicine from Qaeensi.nd Unbersity in 1942 and was a member of ~ Uainrsity Senate from 1955 lo 1960, during which time he played a major role in the establish– ment of a degree course in pharmacy. Art collecting has been Dr Behan's life long inter– est. and bis collcchon of JOO paintings cowering the history of Australian art from confict days to the 1960s is on permanent loan to the Unh·ersily Art Museum. Dr Behan said yesterday that the paintings, kaon u the "Behan Collection", was probably wortll lilore than SI million and featured the works of muy of Australia's fqremost artists. • But tut does not meaa ~t Dr Reh.an paid a for– tune to acquire the w~. "Works I paid two or three pounds for in the 1940s would ·now sell for $10,000 to $15,000," he said yesterday. QUEENSLAND UniYersity acting registrar, Mr Don Munro, with: Norman Behan, who rec~hed his honorary Doctorate of Laws last aieht-,. ~-