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Book: The Samstag Legacy

THIS NEW BOOK PROFILING THE enigmatic American couple, Gordon and Anne Samstag, who laid foundational stones in the Australian art industry through their bequest of the Samstag Scholarships, has been 16 years in the making. It was only supposed to take a few years, but what was initially proposed to be an essay of 3000 words has developed into a densely rich monograph of nearly 400 pages, entitled The Samstag Legacy: An Artist’s Bequest.

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