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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
This exhibition offers a comprehensive display of Clifton Pugh's portraits revealing his development and growth from tonal paintings to a unique style that was in demand from politicians, artists, academics and Australian personalities.
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018
Nicholas Harding: 28 portraits features paintings of Robert Drewe, John Bell and Hugo Weaving alongside gorgeously coloured recent oil portraits, delicate gouaches and bold ink and charcoal drawings.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
Purchased 2018
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.
Studio: Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd presents 61 of some of Australia’s most respected and significant painters working in the studio environment.
Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Daniel Browning delves into Tracey Moffatt’s Some lads series, recently acquired in full by the National Portrait Gallery.