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Exemplary Objects: The Australian National Gallery with Robert Hughes

Published 2021

This 1982 ABC production features Robert Hughes looking at the National Gallery and its place in Australian society.

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Constantin Brancusi

L'Oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space]
c.1931-36

Eric Wilson

(Abstract - Still life)
1939

Emile Bourdelle

Penelope
1912

Claude Monet

Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday]
1890

Napier Waller

"I'll put a girdle round about the earth".
1933

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Augustus Earle

Captain John Piper
1826

Augustus Earle

Mrs John Piper
1826

Benjamin Duterrau

Mr Robinson's first interview with Timmy
1840

Benjamin Law

Woureddy, an Aboriginal chief of Van Diemen's Land
1835

Benjamin Law

Trucaninny, wife of Woureddy
1836

Eugene von Guérard

Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges
1857

Eugene von Guérard

North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko
1863

Eugene von Guérard

View of the granite rocks at Cape Woolamai
c.1872

Nicholas Chevalier

Mount Arapiles and the Mitre Rock
1863

Louis Buvelot

Mount Fyans woolshed
1869

George W. Lambert

Weighing the fleece
1921

Roland Wakelin

The fruit seller of Farm Cove
1915

Roy de Maistre

Arrested phrase from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in red major
1919/35

Margaret Preston

Study in white
1925

Grace Cossington Smith

Four panels for a screen: loquat tree, gum and wattle trees, waterfall, picnic in a gully
1929

Eric Wilson

(Abstract - Still life)
1939

Dorrit Black

House-roofs and flowers
1935

William Dobell

The red lady
1938

Russell Drysdale

The rabbiter and his family
1938

Henri Matisse

L'Enlèvement d'Europe [The abduction of Europa]
1929

Giovanni di Paolo

Crucifixion with donor Jacopo di Bartolomeo [Crocifisso con il donato Jacopo di Bartolomeo]
c.1455

Claude Monet

Meules, milieu du jour [Haystacks, midday]
1890

Claude Monet

Nymphéas [Waterlilies]
c.1914-17

Napier Waller

"I'll put a girdle round about the earth".
1933

Jackson Pollock

Blue poles
1952

Mark Rothko

1957 # 20
1957

Hans Hofmann

Pre-dawn
1960

David Smith

25 planes
1958

Clyfford Still

1952-no.2
1952

Willem de Kooning

Woman V
1952-53

Arshile Gorky

Untitled
1944

Albert Tucker

Image of modern evil 9
1944

Sidney Nolan

Ned Kelly
1946

Arthur Boyd

The hunter I
1944

Brett Whiteley

Christie and Hectorina MacLennan
1964-65

Ian Fairweather

Monastery
1961

Fred Williams

You Yangs landscape II
1963

Constantin Brancusi

L'Oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space]
c.1931-36

Constantin Brancusi

L'Oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space]
c.1931-36

Henry Moore

Hill arches
1973

Emile Bourdelle

Penelope
1912

Clement Meadmore

Virginia
1970

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