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Friends and Acquaintances
by Dr Sarah Engledow
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
The Stories Beneath
by Dr Sarah Engledow
The Alcoa World Alumina Australia gift.
Meeting by Murder
by Yvonne Audette AM
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Poets' Portraits
by Dr Sarah Engledow
The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.
True Stories
by Simon Elliott
The story behind the creation of the portrait of Helen Garner by Jenny Sages.
A bond of friendship
by Yvonne Audette AM
Australia's major abstract painter Yvonne Audette discusses her portrait of sculptor Robert Kippel.
Corporate Characters
by Gillian Raymond
A collection of thirty-seven caricatures by the artist Joe Greenberg capture the heroes and villians of Australian business in the 1980s.
The line of fire
by Michelle Fracaro
Michelle Fracaro examines the life of World War II nurse Margaret Anderson, whose portrait by Napier Waller is in the NPG collection.