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Reed Hutchinson
Biography
Reed Hutchinson has long worked in the campus photography service at UCLA..
1 portrait in the collection
Professor Terence Tao, 2006
Reed Hutchinson
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
Men of the Day No. 5 "As straight as a reed" (Henry John Rous), 1870
Alfred Thompson, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Charles Blackman OBE
Biography
Charles Blackman OBE (1928–2018), artist, studied at East Sydney Technical College and worked as a press artist for the Sun newspaper before moving to Melbourne, where he came to the attention of arts patron John Reed.
9 portraits in the collection
Jinx Nolan
Biography
Jinx Nolan (b. 1941), artist, is the daughter of writer Cynthia Reed and the adopted daughter of Sidney Nolan, whom Reed married in 1948.
1 portrait in the collection
Inside Heide’s lives
It's Complicated
Happiness to heartache
Joy Hester
Biography
Joy Hester (1920-1960) was the only female member of the Angry Penguin movement, which included artists Tucker, Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd.
1 portrait in the collection
Prime number
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2007
Diana Warnes discusses the portrait of the Australian mathematician Terence Tao.
Sidney Nolan, 1964
Axel Poignant
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2003
Karin Catt
Biography
Karin Catt grew up in Newcastle, where she began taking photographs of touring bands while a schoolgirl, and also in London and Hong Kong.
9 portraits in the collection
Nolan Heads
Previous exhibition, 2001
Nolan Heads will focus on the portraiture of one of Australia's most original painters and one of the few to have achieved an international reputation
Famous
Karin Catt Portraits
Previous exhibition, 2006
Australian photographer Karin Catt has photographed world leaders, a host of rock stars and Oscar-winning compatriots Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett.
Self portrait, 1988
Sidney Nolan
Portrait, oil on composition board
Gift of Hon RL Hunter KC 2006. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Presence and Absence
Portrait Sculpture in Australia
Previous exhibition, 2003
This exhibition focuses on exploring national and communal identity through sculptural production in Australia, from the early decades of settlement through to the present day
Sidney Nolan
Biography
Sir Sidney Nolan AC OM CBE (1917–1992) was one of the most original and inventive Australian artists of the postwar decades, and one of few Australian artists to achieve an international reputation in the twentieth century.
7 portraits in the collection
Sir Hudson Fysh KBE DFC
Biography
Sir Hudson Fysh KBE DFC (1895-1974) was one of Australia's great aviation administrators.
3 portraits in the collection