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Hugh Ramsay: Curatorial Introduction

Published 01 August 2020

Curator and Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Dr Deborah Hart, introduces us to a young and talented Hugh Ramsay, with beautiful insight.

Hugh Ramsay (1877–1906) was an accomplished Australian artist whose portrait paintings achieved success here and in France before his untimely death at the age of 28. The National Gallery's retrospective Hugh Ramsay, the first to focus on Ramsay in more than a quarter of a century, brings together paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and letters from collections around the country to celebrate his achievements.


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David Hockney's cancellation proofs

A colour photograph of the Hockey Prints exhibition
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Hugh Ramsay

Miss Nellie Patterson
1903

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Rex Greeno 'Paperbark canoe'

Video still of a canoe artwork.

Published 2014

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James Cant 'Objects in a landscape'

Video still of a close up shot of painting.

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Kookaburra
1891

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Bill Namiayangwa 'An attack by war canoes'

Published 17 December 2010

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Hugh Ramsay

Kookaburra
1891

Hugh Ramsay

Self-portrait, three quarter length with palette
c. 1901

Hugh Ramsay

Miss Nellie Patterson
1903

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