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Meldrum, Max, b. 1875
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the ...
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Pugh, Clifton, b. 1924
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne painter and illustrator
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Shead, Garry, b. 1942
Film maker, cartoonist and Archibald and Dobell Prize winning artist Garry Shead's work is held in most major public collections in Australia. He has created ...
Dobell, William, b. 1899
William Dobell came from a working class family in Newcastle to become one of Australia's most loved artist and the creator of fashionable portraits. He ...
Hanke, Henry Aloysius
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Harding, Nicholas, b. 1956
painter, sketcher, printmaker, illustrator and animator. After studying art in the mid 1970s, Harding travelled through Europe, then returned to Australia, where he developed a ...
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Proud, Geoffrey, b. 1946
Ruddy, Craig, b. 1968
Craig Ruddy was best known for his striking portraits of Aboriginal Australians. He came to fame after he was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2004 ...
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Crooke, Ray, b. 1922
Crooke began his career as an artist at a Melbourne advertising agency while taking courses as Swinburne Technical College. After 1939-45 war service, he taught, ...
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Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
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Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
Walters, Wes, b. 1928
Walters was an illustrator for the advertising agency USP Benson. His work is illustrated in The Arts in Australia Series, "Commercial Art" written by R. ...
Cullen, Adam, b. 1965
Adam Cullen delighted in confronting both his fellow artists and the establishment with his works that explored crime, masculinity and cowboy culture through a lens ...
Quilty, Ben, b. 1973
Although he came to public attention with his paintings of cars, Ben Quilty is best known for his deeply impacted expressionist portraits. .For four years ...
Archibald Prize 1937

by Baker, Normand Henry, Hawkins, Sylvia Wilkins, Lazarus, Valerie.

Then known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales

Archibald Prize, 1950

by Bow, Ian Graham.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
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Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
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Whiteley, Brett, b. 1939
Brett Whiteley was the first Australian to combine a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist. He worked across the mediums of painting, ...
Archibald Prize

by Beynon, Kate, Churcher, Peter, Ford, Juan, Furlonger, Joe, Powditch, James, Sharpe, Wendy, Storrier, Tim, Zofrea, Salvatore.