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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2007
Feeling sexy
Harry Hopman (1906-1985), tennis professional, won seven major Australian titles in the 1930s, notably four mixed doubles with his first wife, Nell Hall.
1 portrait in the collection
Pat Cash (b. 1965), professional tennis player, emerged as a potential top-ten player as a teenager, when he won the junior doubles at the French Open, the junior singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon, and the US Open junior singles – all within a few months of each other in 1982.
1 portrait in the collection
The late Australian photographer Stuart Campbell produced superb photographs of Australian actors of stage and screen.
Colin Friels (b. 1952) arrived in Australia as an adolescent with his Scottish parents, both blue-collar workers.
1 portrait in the collection
Mel Gibson (b. 1956), actor, was born in New York state, the sixth of eleven children of a railroad brakeman and an Australian opera singer.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Ross and Judy O'Connell 2016
Ralph Heimans on his portraits, and features on Louis Kahan, Helena Rubinstein, Judy Cassab and Tasmanian convicts.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012
Australian portraiture of the mid-twentieth century was rich with the influence of European modernism, exemplified by the work of artists including Arthur Boyd, Judy Cassab and Clifton Pugh.
Margaret Fink AO (b. 1933), film producer, was a key figure in the renaissance of Australian cinema in the 1970s.
2 portraits in the collection