Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Nancy Joyce 2014
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004
Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.
The Hon. J.H. Gordon was a delegate from South Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
L. Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015), former company director, was the Founding Patron of the National Portrait Gallery.
2 portraits in the collection
Gordon Andrews (1914-2001) was one of Australia's foremost industrial designers.
3 portraits in the collection
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.
Gordon Shepherdson (b. 1934), painter, was a student of Molvig's and Sibley's in Brisbane.
1 portrait in the collection
Dorothy Gordon (Jenner) OBE, ‘Andrea’ (1891-1985), actress, dressmaker, stuntwoman, journalist, radio broadcaster and charity fundraiser, grew up on a property near Narrabri and attended boarding school in Sydney before gaining a part as a chorus girl in Girl in a Train in Melbourne in 1912.
2 portraits in the collection
Gordon Glenn worked as an assistant cameraman on the television show Homicide before becoming the stills photographer for the pioneering Australian journal Cinema Papers.
3 portraits in the collection
Gordon Watson AM (1921-1999), pianist and teacher, taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music from 1964 to 1986 and was head of its keyboard department when he retired.
1 portrait in the collection
Recorded 1974
The Darling Prize is a new annual prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.
