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Robert H. Black MD

The artist and the doctor

Lust

Art, war, scandal
Sir George Grey

Nothing black and white about the Greys

It's Complicated

Marriage: a prolonged disaster
Robert, Lindy, Grant

Immediately, there was a crackle

It's Complicated

A meeting of minds
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2000

Portrait Donors
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Founding Benefactors

$1,000,000+
Honour board
Robert Klippel

Hearts and craft

Passion

The long game
Billy Mann 1963 by Larry Clark

Larry Clark

Tough & Tender
General content

Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings. 
Ayman Kaake

Ayman Kaake

Vox pops

This photo is a self portrait. So this is me. So you can see the eye resemblance. So, and this photo is inspired by my friends, my workplace.
Julia Matthews

Of Burke, Wills ... and wills

It's Complicated

Infatuation and (ill-fated) exploration
Joan Sutherland

All the world's a stage

General content

Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
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Former Board Chairs

Honour board
Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Tough & Tender Media Release

14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016

Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
Thomas Woolner

The 1850s to the 1880s

Mo and beard timeline

The restrained and cultivated facial hair fashions evident through the first decades of the 1800s were on the wane by the middle of the century, when hirsute faces became mainstream.
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1999

Portrait Donors
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Portrait Donors
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Portrait Donors
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