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 3 4 5 6 Sort by: artist surname oldest first (excludes undated works) newest first (excludes undated works) title image availability accession number Sidney Nolan Dimboola landscape 1942 19.1985 Sidney Nolan Kelly kneeling circa 1946 21.1985 Sidney Nolan Untitled (Bishop and cactus) 1956 22.1985 Sidney Nolan Untitled 1961 12.1994.3 Sidney Nolan Untitled 1961 12.1994.5 Sidney Nolan Self portrait 1943 412.1997 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Sidney Nolan Magpie 1950 446.1995 Sidney Nolan Kelly 1956 4.1984 John Olsen Dylan's country 1957 9664 John Olsen Australian flux 1960 WA8.1960 John Olsen Spanish encounter 1960 OA29.1960.a-c John Olsen Entrance to the seaport of desire 1964 OA23.1968 John Olsen Goyder Channel 1975 15.1980 John Olsen Nightfall, when wattle stains the doubting heart 1980 45.1981 John Olsen Golden summer, Clarendon 1983 167.1985 John Olsen Coolah 1994 466.1996 John Olsen Five bells 1963 133.1999 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries John Olsen Flathead and fish 1999 111.2000 John Passmore Up the orchard 1946 187.1982 John Passmore Miller's Point circa 1952 548.1987 John Passmore If you don't believe me, ask the old bloke 1953 OA8.1961 John Passmore Orange dot 1953 8732 John Passmore Poppies, fruit and skull 1953 8980 John Passmore The argument 1953 9005 John Passmore The argument 1953 OA7.1961 John Passmore The fish stealer 1954 OA6.1961 John Passmore Jumping horse-mackerel 1959 OA21.1959 John Passmore Red ochre 1960 OA10.1960 John Passmore The basket boys 1958 DA3.1959 John Passmore The miraculous draught of fishes 1952 179.1989 John Passmore Five landscapes 1940s 42.1996 John Passmore Forward and back 1940s 43.1996 Margaret Preston (Still life with teapot and daisies) 1915 192.1977 Margaret Preston Summer 1915 826 Margaret Preston Nasturtiums circa 1916 684 Margaret Preston Still life 1926 4.1972 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 Banksia cobs 1933 188.1982 Margaret Preston Rose and banksia 1936 6373 Margaret Preston The brown pot 1940 7223 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston I lived at Berowra 1941 7177 Margaret Preston Rocks and waves circa 1929 141.1976 Margaret Preston Wheelflower circa 1929 204.1977 Margaret Preston Australian legend, number 3: The kangaroo hunt circa 1957 207.1977 Margaret Preston The gorge circa 1944 215.1977 Margaret Preston Circular Quay 1925 DA28.1964 Margaret Preston Cowan Creek, from Berowra circa 1939 DA29.1964 Margaret Preston Sydney Bridge circa 1932 DA30.1964 Margaret Preston Australian rock lily circa 1933 DA32.1964 Margaret Preston Sydney Heads (2) 1925 DA16.1968 On display – South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries Margaret Preston The expulsion 1952 DA64.1967 Margaret Preston Australian legend, number 1: The superimposed feet circa 1957 DA65.1967 Margaret Preston Australian legend, number 2: The terrible story circa 1957 DA61.1967 Margaret Preston Australian legend, number 5: End of the love story, Curing and flight of love circa 1957 DA62.1967 Margaret Preston Cowan Creek (1) 1946 308.1984 Margaret Preston Australian legend, number 4: Kangaroo dance and pointing the bone circa 1957 DA7.1959 Margaret Preston Aboriginal glyph circa 1958 DA2.1960 Margaret Preston Banksia in jug 1952 8644 1 2 3 4 5 6