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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Dorothy Gordon
Dorothy Gordon
Dorothy Gordon

Dorothy Gordon, c. 1922

Melbourne Spurr
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Dorothy Gordon, in part costume for Rudolph Valentino's
Dorothy Gordon, in part costume for Rudolph Valentino's
Dorothy Gordon, in part costume for Rudolph Valentino's

Dorothy Gordon, in part costume for Rudolph Valentino's "In Blood and Sand", c. 1922

Melbourne Spurr
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Harry Belafonte, 1954 Dorothy Wilding

Harry Belafonte

Dorothy Wilding
Image
Anna May Wong, 1929 Dorothy Wilding

Anna May Wong

Dorothy Wilding
Image
Dorothy
Dorothy
Dorothy

Dorothy, 1990 (printed 2013)

Michael Riley
Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2013

Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter, 2001-2002

Rick Amor
Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Andrea Goldsmith 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dorothy Robinson Napangardi
Dorothy Robinson Napangardi
Dorothy Robinson Napangardi

Dorothy Robinson Napangardi, 2010

Greg Weight
Portrait, inkjet print on cotton rag paper

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dorothy Porter

Beautiful bones

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011

Sarah Engledow reflects on the shared life and writing of Dorothy Porter and Andrea Goldsmith.

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

31 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015

The Chairman, Board, Director and all the Staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Founding Patron, who died peacefully in Melbourne this morning. He was 94.

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