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Sir Ian McLennan KBE (1909-1998) was chairman of BHP from 1971 to 1977.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ian Ross 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Stan Coster (1930-1997) was one of Australian country music's greatest songwriters.
1 portrait in the collection
Born in the United Kingdom, Sahlan Hayes lived with his family in the USA, New Zealand and the United Kingdom before settling in Australia.
9 portraits in the collection
Olive Cotton (1911-2003) was one of Australia's pioneering modernist photographers.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Mike Brown (1938-1997) artist, was a participant (with Ross Crothall and Colin Lanceley) in the 1962 Annandale Imitation Realists exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Design, Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Artist Henry Mundy arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1831 and took up a position as teacher of drawing, French and music at Ellinthorp Hall, a school near Ross established ‘with a view to the improvement of Young Ladies’.
4 portraits in the collection
Bridget Elliot (b. 1958), photographer, is acknowledged for her significant portraits of Australian composers and musical performers.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008
Tom Carroll (b.1961), former professional surfer, made the finals of the 1979 Pipe Masters on his first ever world tour, finishing 24th in the world that same year.
1 portrait in the collection
Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury