Home Art Collection Works Collection Search Advanced search Works shown in the exhibition Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection (346) works on display (61) works with images (337) Filter by: Collection area Origin Media Date/period Artist A–Z 1 2 Sort by: artist surname oldest first (excludes undated works) newest first (excludes undated works) title image availability accession number Grace Cossington Smith The sock knitter 1915 OA18.1960 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Grace Cossington Smith The reader 1916 22.1974 On display – South Building, lower level 3, Library, archive and children's art library Grace Cossington Smith Rushing circa 1922 OA8.1967 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Grace Cossington Smith Things on an iron tray on the floor circa 1928 OA9.1967 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Grace Cossington Smith The Lacquer Room 1936 OA10.1967 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Grace Cossington Smith Bonfire in the bush circa 1937 20.1973 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Grace Cossington Smith Interior with wardrobe mirror 1955 OA11.1967 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Grace Cossington Smith The curve of the bridge 1928-1929 1.1991 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Russell Drysdale Walls of China 1945 7631 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Russell Drysdale Sofala 1947 8700 Winner - Wynne Prize 1947 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Ian Fairweather Fish traps, Peking 1935 225.1982 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Ian Fairweather Roi soleil 1956-1957 9315 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries James Gleeson The sower 1944 OA13.1966 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Robert KlippelJames Gleeson No 35 Madame Sophie Sesostoris (a pre-raphaelite satire) 1947-1948 SA3.1970 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Robert Klippel No 48 Entities suspended from a detector 1948 SA1.1970 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Robert Klippel No 329 1977 239.1998 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries George Lambert Across the black soil plains 1899 550 Winner - Wynne Prize 1899 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts George Lambert Miss Thea Proctor 1903 OA12.1961 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts George Lambert Holiday in Essex 1910 157.1981 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Lyric poetry 1888 104.1972 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Sarah Bernhardt circa 1892-circa 1893 7432 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Truth 1894 65.1974 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Madonna circa 1906 767 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Circe circa 1902-circa 1904 SA7.1970 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Bertram Mackennal Lady Diana Duff Cooper (Lady Diana Manners) 1909-circa 1918 7156 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Mawalan Marika Djan'kawu creation story 1959 IA65.1959 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Sidney Nolan The camp 1946 207.1978 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Sidney Nolan Pretty Polly Mine 1948 8169 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Sidney Nolan Escaped convict 1962 OA28.1962 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Sidney Nolan Self portrait 1943 412.1997 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries John Olsen Five bells 1963 133.1999 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston Implement blue 1927 OA7.1960 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston Western Australian gum blossom 1928 93.1978 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston Self portrait 1930 937 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston The brown pot 1940 7223 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston Sydney Heads (2) 1925 DA16.1968 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Lloyd Rees The road to Berry 1947 7940 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Tom Roberts An autumn morning, Milson's Point, Sydney 1888 27.1983 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Tom Roberts Holiday sketch at Coogee 1888 9078 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Tom Roberts The Golden Fleece 1894 648 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Tom Roberts Bailed up 1895, 1927 833 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Tom Roberts The camp, Sirius Cove 1899 6928 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Tom Roberts Washing day Kallista circa 1923-circa 1925 8009 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Tom Roberts Evening train to Hawthorn circa 1889 158.1991 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton The national game 1889 OA11.1963 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton 'Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide' 1890 859 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton Fire's on 1891 832 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton The railway station, Redfern 1893 7209 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton Fireman's funeral, George Street 1894 43.1980 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton Cremorne pastoral 1895 858 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Arthur Streeton From my camp (Sirius Cove) 1896 193.1991 On display – South Building, ground level, Grand Courts Brett Whiteley Untitled 1962 13.1985 On display – Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills Brett Whiteley Shankar 1966 148.1971 On display – Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills Brett Whiteley The bush 1966 350.1998.a-c On display – Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills Brett Whiteley Untitled painting 1961 272.1996 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Brett Whiteley Woman in bath 1963, re-worked 1964 191.2000 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Fred Williams You Yangs landscape 1963 207.1980 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Fred Williams My garden 1965-1967 165.1999 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu The Thunder Spirits (Birimbira) 1961 IA19.1961 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu Lany'tjung story (Crocodile and Bandicoot) 1959 IA61.1959 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries 1 2