Museum of Modern Art | Art Deco | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Art Institute of Chicago | National Portrait Gallery | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | National Gallery of Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | Whitney Museum of American Art | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Art Nouveau | Royal College of Art | Walker Art Center | National Gallery | art | Glasgow School of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Smithsonian American Art Museum | National Gallery of Australia | National Portrait Gallery (London) | Art Students League of New York | National Gallery of Victoria | Denver Art Museum | Cleveland Museum of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Art | Night Gallery | National Gallery of Canada |
His work has been exhibited in the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Busan Biennale, Korea; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ;Artspace Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Govett was sent to the Hawkesbury River in February 1829, where many farms required measurement, but in 1833 his career ended abruptly when the department was reduced.