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2000

Portrait Donors
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Former Board Chairs

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1999

Portrait Donors
Robert, Lindy, Grant

Immediately, there was a crackle

It's Complicated

A meeting of minds
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Founding Benefactors

$1,000,000+
Honour board
Robert H. Black MD

The artist and the doctor

Lust

Art, war, scandal

Untitled

by Isabelle De Kleine
General content

Residency prize winner, MDPA 2015
Robert Klippel

Hearts and craft

Passion

The long game
MacKenzie family silhouette

Pictorial profiles of hearth and home

Nearest & Dearest

Keep it in the family
Julia Matthews

Of Burke, Wills ... and wills

It's Complicated

Infatuation and (ill-fated) exploration
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Major Donors

$50,000+
Honour board
Joan Sutherland

All the world's a stage

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Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
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Honour board
Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Tough & Tender Media Release

14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016

Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

31 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015

The Chairman, Board, Director and all the Staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Founding Patron, who died peacefully in Melbourne this morning. He was 94.
Mal Meninga

Mal Meninga, 2018

by Peter Hudson
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Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018
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