The Aaron and Marjorie Matalon Collection is one of the most significant donations of artwork ever received by the NGJ. The Hon. Aaron Matalon, OJ (1920-2009) was a leading entrepreneur of the post-Independence period, a major patron of the arts and the NGJ’s Board Chairman from 1992 to 2003. Aaron Matalon was integral in providing assistance for several singular acquisitions for the NGJ as well as making donations of his own. In 1999, he and his wife Marjorie made their most significant donation – an assembly of 218 works of art, arguably the largest and most diverse donation to be received by the institution.

The objects of the Aaron and Majorie Matalon Collection are dated from the pre-twentieth century to the modern era, with an array of material types and themes. The collection includes 18^th and 19^th century Jamaican maps, prints, paintings and drawings, 19^th and 20^th century Jamaican photography as well as 20^th century Jamaican sculpture, paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics.