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Sir Sidney Kidman
Biography
Sir Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (1857-1935), is Australia's 'cattle king'.
2 portraits in the collection
Sir Sidney Kidman, 1932
Samuel Woolf
Portrait, charcoal heightened with white chalk on paper
Purchased 2009
The fat of the land
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
Sidney Kidman and Arthur Triggs, c. 1914
Falk Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2007
Nicole Kidman AC
Biography
Nicole Kidman (b. 1967), actor, began her film career as a teenager in the Australian ventures Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits (1983).
3 portraits in the collection
Nicole Kidman, New York, 2003
Irving Penn
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Nicole Kidman, 2002 (printed 2004)
Karin Catt
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Nicole Kidman, c. 1980
Lewis Morley
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Penn on paper
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2009
Michael Desmond discusses Irving Penn's photographic portrait of Nicole Kidman.
Sidney Myer
Biography
Sidney Myer (1878-1934), retail magnate and philanthropist, arrived in Melbourne in 1898 as a penniless Russian immigrant named Simca Baevski.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Sidney Nolan
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1962
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.
Sidney Riley Studios
Biography
Sidney Riley Studios operated concurrently at several Sydney locations (Balmain, Rozelle, Pitt St., Sydney, Marrickville & Chatswood), and in Brisbane, between 1911 and 1946.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Sidney Nolan, c. 1980s
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sidney Myer, 1936
Paul Montford
Portrait, cast bronze on wooden base
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Coles Myer Ltd 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program