Norman Macgeorge

Norman Macgeorge (8 July 1872 – 2 September 1952) was an artist and art critic in the colony and State of Victoria.

After failing to win a travelling scholarship in 1899, he made his own way to Britain and Europe, where he visited major centres of art.

He married in 1911 and engaged Harold Desbrowe-Annear to build, in bushland at the junction of Darebin Creek and the Yarra River, at 25 Riverside Road, Ivanhoe, a residence "Ballangeich" which remained their lifelong home and a popular gathering place for artists.

The University also has a large portrait of Macgeorge, painted by his friend and near-neighbour Napier Waller.

An uncle, James Macgeorge, an Adelaide architect, was a prominent member of the South Australian Society of Arts.