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Portrait 27

March - May 2008

Portrait of Henry Vernon Crock AO
Portrait of Henry Vernon Crock AO
Portrait of Henry Vernon Crock AO

Private practice

by Joanna Gilmour

David Smith portrayed Dr Henry Crock without the accoutrements of an orthopaedic surgeon, adding to the National Portrait Gallery's collection of eminent Australian medical practitioners.
Mark Richards
Mark Richards
Mark Richards

Off the wall

by John Witzig

Photographer and surf mag editor John Witzig tells the stories behind his iconic surf images.
Ursus sitting, 1931
Ursus sitting, 1931
Ursus sitting, 1931

Two pair

by Dr Jacqui Strecker

Stuttgart's Art Museum is showing Otto Dix portraits alongside artists from Lucas Cranach to Andy Warhol.
Captain W Kinghorne
Captain W Kinghorne
Captain W Kinghorne

The bright-eyed Mariner

by Dr Sarah Engledow

A new colonial portrait brings a zealous captain near.
Head of a Naked Girl, 2000
Head of a Naked Girl, 2000
Head of a Naked Girl, 2000

Every flap, fold and bulge

by Starr Figura

Lucian Freud's unflinching realism is on display in the first solo exhibition of his paintings and etchings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Awkward self
Awkward self
Awkward self

Emerging realities

by Helena Bezzina

At the end of 2007 the National Portrait Gallery launched the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize and artists aged between eighteen and twenty-five were invited to submit self portraits using a variety of media including drawing, painting, printmaking and traditional or digital photography.
Charlie as he was, 2007
Charlie as he was, 2007
Charlie as he was, 2007

I'm not there

by Dr Christopher Chapman

Christopher Chapman looks at some contemporary portraits that explore the construction of identity.
Florence Austral
Florence Austral
Florence Austral

Pretty in peach

by Joanna Gilmour

It's remarkable that the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond has produced two of Australia's most successful opera singers. Three decades apart, but within a short distance of each other, both Helen Porter Mitchell and Florence Wilson were born.
Alexander Pearce executed for murder July 19th 1824
Alexander Pearce executed for murder July 19th 1824
Alexander Pearce executed for murder July 19th 1824

Public hanging

by Michael Desmond

As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.

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Portrait 28

June - August 2008

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Harold Cazneaux, nineteenth-century carte de visites, Tim Winton, Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, Evelyn Chapman and more.

Portrait 26

December 2007 - February 2008

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Matthew Perceval, Tom Uren, George Tjungurrayi, silhouette portraiture, pop art portraits and more.
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