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She Persists, a publication featuring 34 perspectives exploring pivotal moments and key contributions to the field of art and design by women, whose influential works are held in the NGV Collection.

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Collection Highlights

John BRACK
Collins St, 5p.m.
 1955 Katsushika HOKUSAI
The great wave off Kanagawa
 (c. 1830)
from the Thirty-six views of Mt Fuji series 1826-33 Emily Kam Kngwarray
Anwerlarr anganenty (Big yam Dreaming)
 1995 Lee KRASNER
Combat
 1965 Yayoi KUSAMA
Flower obsession
 (2016-2017) Pablo PICASSO
Weeping woman
 (1937) Margaret PRESTON
Flannel flowers
 1938 Grace Cossington SMITH
The Bridge in-curve
 (1930) Giambattista TIEPOLO
The Banquet of Cleopatra
 (1743-1744) John William WATERHOUSE
Ulysses and the Sirens
 1891

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Susanna Highmore by Joseph Highmore: A father’s perspective

By Carl Villis

 Picture perfect: Pictorialism and its processes

By Pip Morrison

 La Petite, Evening Dress

By Danielle Whitfield, Susan van Wyk and Bronwyn Cosgrove

 200 Years of Australian Fashion

By Paola Di Trocchio, Janice Breen Burns, Margaret Maynard, Rosalie Ham & Kym Ellery
Alex Prager

Alex Prager is an American photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. In her elaborately conceived staged photographs, Prager openly references the aesthetics of mid-twentieth-century American cinema and photography.

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Art Journal

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Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Gäna (Self)

By Judith Ryan AM

 Julian Rosefeldt In the Land of Drought

By Katharina Prugger

 Adam Goodrum, Arthur Seigneur Bloom, cabinet

By Ewan McEoin

 Aïda Muluneh Amusement at the park

By Susan van Wyk
The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection

Acquired by the NGV from 2015 with the support of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, in memory of her late husband Harold Campbell-Pretty, The Campbell-Pretty Fashion Research Collection is an acknowledgment of the growing importance of archival resources within museums today.

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