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Stella Bowen
Biography
Stella Bowen, painter and writer, grew up in Adelaide, where she studied with Margaret Preston.
1 portrait in the collection
Self portrait, c. 1934
Stella Bowen
Portrait, oil on cardboard
Purchased 2003
A Singular Line
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2003
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
Give me five
Magazine article by Karen Quinlan AM, 2021
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
Dr Stella Cornelius AO OBE
Biography
Stella Cornelius AO OBE (1919–2010), businesswoman and peace activist, was born to Jewish parents in Sydney and grew up moving around New South Wales as her father, a draper and tailor, found work during the Depression.
1 portrait in the collection
Missionary positions
Magazine article by Stella Ramage, 2016
Stella Ramage on Father McHardy’s Bougainville portraiture.
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, c. 1873
Bardwell's Royal Studio
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Vice-Royalty. "A Quoter of Poetry" [George Bowen, Governor of Victoria], 1873
Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Dr Stella Cornelius AO OBE, 1989
Judy Cassab AO CBE
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Cornelius family 2019
Charles Conder, Stella Maris Condor and Florence Humphrey at les Petites Dalles, Normandy, 1902
H. Walter Barnett
Portrait, platinum photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Stella
Michael Bowers
Image
Portrait 10
December 2003 - February 2004
Magazine
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Roy de Maistre, the Australians in Hollywood exhibtion, Stella Bowen, portraits of scientists and more.
Stella #1, 2017
by Michele Aboud
Image
Sharing the dream?
It's Complicated
In love and war
The Cosmopolitans
In Gallery Two
Previous exhibition, 2023
Spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, this collection display celebrates the innovations in art – and life – introduced by the generation of Australians who travelled to London and Paris for experience and inspiration in the decades either side of 1900.
Self, titled, 2013
by Stella Rosa McDonald
General content
Finalist, MDPA 2013