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School portraits
About Face article
Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.
Mother’s muse
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2020
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Love my way
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2022
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Wunderkind lost
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2021
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
The Royal she
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2019
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Biography
Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE (1915–2009), aviatrix, decided she wanted to be a pilot when, at age eight, she saw a plane make an emergency landing on a beach near her home.
2 portraits in the collection
Nancy Bird Walton part 1
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1977
Nancy Bird Walton part 2
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1977
Minnie Walton, c. 1874
Fradelle & Marshall
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Nancy Bird Walton, c. 1973
Judy Cassab AO CBE
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Nancy Bird Walton - Pioneer, 2003
Danelle Bergstrom
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004
Minnie Walton (photograph of Miss Rose Massey on verso), 1876
Lock & Whitfield, London
Portrait, albumen photograph on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
The aviatrix
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Portrait 62
Autumn 2019
Magazine
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, the iconoclastic Japanese figures Yukio Mishima and Tamotsu Yato, Angélica Dass’ Humanæ project and more.
Portrait 32
June - August 2009
Magazine
This issue features Vanity Fair, Nancy Bird Walton, William Barak, Sidney Kidman, Benjamin Duterrau's portraits of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania, and more.
Portrait 65
Autumn/Winter 2021
Magazine
Hugh Ramsay, the fashion of Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, Peter Wegner's centenarian series, John and Elizabeth Gould's family connections, Karen Quinlan's top five portraits and more.