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Moving in creative circles
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2008
Harold Cazneaux's portraits of influential Sydneysiders included Margaret Preston and Ethel Turner, both important figures in the development of ideas about Australian identity and culture.
All dressed up
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
The 'I' in Indigenous art
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Money for Myth
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2015
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
What price self?
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan investigates auction sales of self portraits nationally and internationally.
Demimonde liaisons
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2017
Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.
A nose by any other name
Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2013
In the exhibition William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa at the National Gallery of Australia, the artist marries Gogol's Tsarist Russia, with that of Stalin and the damaging history of his homeland, South Africa.
Pen power
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2015
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
Listening to form
Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2007
National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
Duty bound
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
Fits of delicacy and despair
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Charmed by the Rose
Magazine article by Anthony Browell, 2004
Anthony Browell reminisces about meeting Rose Lindsay, the wife of Australian artist Norman Lindsay.
Portrait 57
Winter 2017
Magazine
The discovery of Dempsey's People, Australian rugby greats, Athol Shmith's progressive pictures, and powerful Indigenous portraits.
A Life in Service
Magazine article by Mandy Martin, 2005
Artist Mandy Martin describes the creation of her portrait of Aldo Giurgola, principal architect of Australia's Parliament House.
Painting mates
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2011
Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
Sketches and sermons
Magazine article by Jessica Smith, 2009
Jessica Smith looks at the 'fetching' portrait of Tasmania's first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon by George Richmond