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Em Jensen
Thelma Plum, 2024 (printed 2026)
Portrait, pigment photographic print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Gerard Harnan & Kelly West 2026
Kan Studios
Shigeo Sawada, c. 1915
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Ron Wylie 2007
John Elliott
Rick Carey, WA, 1998 (printed 2004)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Jimmy Pozarik OAM
Nicholas Hope,
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2007
Ern McQuillan OAM
Bob and Dolly Dyer,
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Ern McQuillan OAM
Little Pattie, 1966 (printed 2019)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2019
Terry Clune
Biography
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
Shigeo Sawada
Biography
Shigeo Sawada (1890-1940) was the Managing Director of Okura and Co. Trading Ltd in Sydney from 1937 to his death.
1 portrait in the collection
Rick Carey
Biography
Rick and Thelma Carey comprise Australian country music's most famous double act, Rick and Thel.
1 portrait in the collection
Bob Dyer
Biography
Bob Dyer (1909–1984), entertainer, was born in Tennessee and came to Australia in 1937.
1 portrait in the collection
Nicholas Hope
Biography
Nicholas Hope (b. 1959), shot to international fame in art movie circles as the star of Bad Boy Bubby, a cult Australian film directed by Rolf de Heer and released in 1994.
1 portrait in the collection
Patricia T. Thompson OAM
Biography
Patricia Thelma Thompson OAM (née Amphlett, b. 1949), better known as Little Pattie, first appeared on Australian television at age thirteen in 1962.
1 portrait in the collection
The artist, the scholar and the gentleman
Magazine article by Kwon Hyeeun, 2019
Kwon Hyeeun introduces Korean portraits of Kang Sehwang, and five generations of the Kang family.
The news from Washington
Magazine article by Lauretta Morton, 2006
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
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Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2017
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
The art of dress
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2023
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.