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Patrick White (1912–1990), acknowledged as Australia’s pre-eminent novelist of the 20th century, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 for The Eye of the Storm, ‘for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature’.
7 portraits in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003



Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

An interview with photographer William Yang who recalls his encounters with the author Patrick White.



The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001



Purchased 1998



Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Eleven works by Brett Whiteley, centred around his scintillating 'Patrick White at Centennial Park 1979-1980'.



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.

The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.

Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.

Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

