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Greg Weight
John Olsen - En plein air, 1996
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Robin Sellick
John Olsen, 1993
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004
Clifton Pugh AO
John Olsen, 1971
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of the Bardas families, in memory of Sandra Bardas OAM and David Bardas AO 2024. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Greg Weight
John Olsen, 1996
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Greg Weight
John Olsen, 1979
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Nicholas Harding
John Olsen AO, CBE, 2017
Portrait, oil on linen
Gift of the artist 2019. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
David Moore
John Olsen, Woollahra, Sydney, 1962 (printed 2000)
Portrait, montage of gelatin silver photographs
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
Mark Strizic
Clifton Pugh and John Olsen, Dunmoochin, 1969
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
John Olsen AO CBE
Biography
John Olsen AO OBE (1928–2023), painter, was one of the major figures in 20th-century Australian art.
8 portraits in the collection
Murray Walker
Olly's Trolly, Freddie's Brushes, 1989
Portrait, monoprint on paper
Gift of the artist 2001
John Olsen AO
Biography
John Olsen AO (b. 1945), diplomat and former politician, grew up in South Australia and began his public career as its youngest-ever mayor, assuming that office in Kadina in 1974.
1 portrait in the collection
Lewis Morley
Rudy Komon, c. 1970
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Adrian Lawlor
Jean Bellette, 1937
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Greg Weight
Tim Storrier, 1995
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Cherry Hood
Simon Tedeschi unplugged, 2002
Portrait, watercolour on canvas
Gift of Tim Olsen 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ada May Plante
Self portrait, n.d.
Portrait, pen and ink, pencil on paper laid on cardboard
Gift of Dr Penny Olsen, Peter Woollard and Artemis Georgiades 2015