Recorded 1965
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Grace Cossington Smith, the Fairfax portrait gift and Lewis Morley's photographs.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Laurie Curley OAM and Mrs Robyn Curley 2012
Sarah Engledow previews the beguiling summer exhibition, Idle hours.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Dr Sarah Engledow traces the significant links between Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Evelyn Chapman through their portraits.
The world of Thea Proctor was the National Portrait Gallery's second exhibition to follow the life of a single person, following Rarely Everage: The lives of Barry Humphries.
Close contemporaries, Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith were frequently sources of inspiration and irritation to each other.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers describes the 1922 Self-portrait with Gladioli by George Lambert.
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
Australia's tradition of sculpted portraits stretches back to the early decades of the nineteenth century and continues to sustain a group of dedicated sculptors.
The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.
Purchased 2002
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002
