The Howard Hinton Collection – Colour & Light

The Howard Hinton collection lives at NERAM and has over 1000 artworks that were generously donated by the art collector Howard Hinton. Howard Hinton was born in England in 1866, and at the age of 24 moved to Australia and became friends with the leading artists of the Heidelberg School and the artists’ camps around Sydney Harbour in the 1890s.

He built a successful career in shipping and, along with a family inheritance, used his wealth to support a large number of Australian artists in the first half of the 1900’s. Through many donations to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and particularly the Armidale Teachers’ College he became one of the greatest benefactors (a person who does good things) in Australian art history.

In 1983 the Hinton Collection was moved from the Armidale Teachers College to its new home at the New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM) where it is now on display in the ‘Wonders of Hinton’ exhibition.