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Portrait 40

July - August 2011

This issue features Claudia Karvan & Jimmy Pozarik, Agus Suwage & Contemporary Portraiture from Asia, Fred Williams, Zhong Chen, John Bell, The French Antipodes and more.

Fred Dagg (John Clarke)

Fred Dagg (John Clarke)

Fred Dagg (John Clarke)

Fred Dagg (John Clarke), 1982

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner, c. 1863

an unknown artist, Freeman Brothers

Portrait, albumen silver photographs on laid on paper with handwritten text

Purchased 2008

Rudy Komon

Rudy Komon

Rudy Komon (1908-1982) was an art dealer and gallery director. After working as a journalist in Czechoslovakia, where he served with the Czech resistance during the war, he emigrated to Sydney and opened an antique store.

3 portraits in the collection

Portrait of Tam Purves

Thomas Purves

Thomas Purves (1909-1969), known as Tam, founded the Australian Galleries in Smith Street, Collingwood, Melbourne with his wife Anne in 1956.

1 portrait in the collection

Rudy Komon

Rudy Komon

Rudy Komon

Rudy Komon, c. 1970

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Cowboy Wilson, Birds, 2009 by Tobias Rowles

Cowboy Wilson, Birds, 2009

by Tobias Rowles

Sisters baking, 2009 by Hamish Gregory

Sisters baking, 2009

by Hamish Gregory

Portrait of Louise Forthun in front of a Stephen Bram

Louise Forthun

Louise Forthun (b. 1959), artist, works primarily in painting and printmaking and has an aesthetic and conceptual focus on the architectural landscape of Australia's urban environments.

1 portrait in the collection

Fiona Stanley

Lifelines

Medical advocates

General content

Fiona Stanley, Fiona Wood, Fred Hollows, Patrick McGorry and John Yu

Portrait of Lady Eyre Williams (Jessie Gibbon)

Here’s looking at you, kid

Is he thinking of me?

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The hoodie, 2021 (printed 2023)

Portrait, pigment print on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2023

Trent Nathan and Shane Barr

Trent Nathan and Shane Barr

Trent Nathan and Shane Barr

Trent Nathan and Shane Barr, 1995 (printed 2018)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Bruce Tyrrell

Bruce Tyrrell

Bruce Tyrrell

Bruce Tyrrell, 1986 (printed 2018)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Girl (portrait of Barbara Blackman)

Girl (portrait of Barbara Blackman)

Girl (portrait of Barbara Blackman)

Girl (portrait of Barbara Blackman), 1969

Charles Blackman OBE

Portrait, charcoal on paper

Purchased 2009

James Mollison

James Mollison AO

James Mollison AO (1931–2020) was the inaugural director of the National Gallery of Australia.

2 portraits in the collection

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