100 years of our most famous portrait prize and my almost 50 years watching it evolve
- Written by Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
Winner: Archibald Prize 1972: Clifton Pugh. 'The Hon EG Whitlam' 1972. Oil on composition board, 113.5 x 141.5 cm© Estate of Clifton PughIn 2008, when I first visited Canberra’s newly opened National Portrait Gallery, my first response was an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. I knew many of those paintings. They had once hung...





