'For five years before leaving London [United Kingdom] [Edmund Capon] held the position of assistant keeper, Far Eastern Section at the Victoria & Albert Museum, having started there in 1966 in the Textile Department (specialising in Chinese textiles and costume, and European tapestries). He ... also managed a commercial gallery in London primarily concerned with modern British paintings and sculpture. He obtained his Master of Philosophy degree in Chinese art and archaeology (including language) from the London University School of Oriental and African Studies, and also studied 20th-century painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.'
Edmund Capon was appointed director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1978. He announced his retirement in August 2011.
Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales website, http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
Sighted: 12/11/2009
