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Stan Coster, Manilla, NSW

Stan Coster

Stan Coster (1930-1997) was one of Australian country music's greatest songwriters.

1 portrait in the collection

Stan Coster, Manilla, NSW

Stan Coster, Manilla, NSW

Stan Coster, Manilla, NSW

Stan Coster, Manilla, NSW, 1994 (printed 2004)

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant

Stan Grant (b. 1963), a proud Wiradjuri man born in Griffith, New South Wales, grew up wanting to be a journalist.

1 portrait in the collection

Stan de Teliga

Stan de Teliga

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 1965

Stan de Teliga

Stan de Teliga

Stan de Teliga

Stan de Teliga, 1973

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Liibus family 2015

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes, 2020 Nic Walker

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes, 2020

Portrait, archival pigment print on Canson Edition Etching cotton rag paper

Gift of the artist 2021

Bust of Frank McIlwraith

Frank McIlwraith

Frank McIlwraith was the London representative for the Australian periodical Smith's Weekly in the late 1930s.

1 portrait in the collection

Bust of Frank McIlwraith

Bust of Frank McIlwraith

Bust of Frank McIlwraith

Bust of Frank McIlwraith, 1937

Portrait, cast bronze, patinated

Gift of the Estate of the late Barbara Tribe 2009

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John Frith

John Frith, cartoonist, was born and schooled in England before coming to Sydney in 1929.

4 portraits in the collection

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Terry Clune

Terry Clune (b. 1932), gallerist, established Terry Clune Galleries with Frank MacDonald at 59 McLeay Street Potts Point in 1957.

1 portrait in the collection

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Tracey Holmes

Tracey Holmes (b. 1966), sports broadcaster and journalist, has covered twelve Olympic Games and was the first woman to host an Australian national sports program, Grandstand.

1 portrait in the collection

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown

Australian Love Stories

Archived media releases 2021

A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.

Elizabeth (Murray) 2000

Extremely generous and incredibly close

Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010

Michael Desmond examines the daguerreotype portraits created by American artist Chuck Close.

Portrait of Mr Frank Packer

Judy Cassab

The artist's diary

Previous exhibition, 2013

The artist's diary profiles six decades of Cassab's work, from the early portrait commissions of the 1950s to later paintings that have helped confirm her eminent place in the canon of Australian portraiture.

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