Montsalvat : The Intimate Story of an Australian Artists' Colony.

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- Beginnings -- In the beginning was Meldrum -- Courtship and travel -- Back home -- The Jörgensen palette -- Part II -- From Queen Street to Metery Road -- Montsalvat rises -- Den of iniquity -- The lack of recognition -- The Skippers -- The first members -- From the Bulletin to Pandemonium -- The scribe and the gardener -- Admiration and disagreements -- The seeds of World War II -- How to build a utopia -- A day at Montsalvat -- Justus, Lily and Helen -- What the master saw -- Building the Great Hall -- The nearly blind Welsh conscript, Phil Taffe -- Part III -- The founding group -- The founders' children -- The tradesmen -- Part IV -- New faces and troubled times -- A postwar revival -- Confessional and Moscow show trials -- An autumn dinner -- Four roles -- Times of change -- Part V -- The new beginning -- Politicians and others -- An exciting time -- Pioneers and painters -- Festivals -- The Eltham Cemetery -- Clichy restaurant -- The Montsalvat international jazz festivals -- The Great Barn fire and the end of an era -- Unchartered waters -- The Montsalvat Trust -- All or nothing -- David White and new CEO -- Building again -- Epilogue -- Map of the grounds -- Appendix The buildings -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Back cover.

The colourful history of the legendary Melbourne artists' colony, Montsalvat, and the story of its founder Justus Jorgensen as told by his son.

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