Essays

What is in a title? Dick Watkins’s Rain in West Pymble

Raymonda Rajkowski

Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware

Marika Strohschnieder

Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story

Raye Collins and Carl Villis

A revelation: the X-ray of Herbert Badham’s Paint and morning tea (1937)

Raye Collins

Hokusai and The great wave

Mem Capp

Modern Australian Women

Dr Maria Quirk

Verso: revealing the secret life of paintings

Laurie Benson & Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Susanna Highmore by Joseph Highmore: a father’s perspective

Carl Villis

Picture perfect: Pictorialism and its processes

Pip Morrison

La Petite, Evening Dress

Danielle Whitfield, Susan van Wyk and Bronwyn Cosgrove

200 Years of Australian Fashion

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

A scrap album worthy of a fancy dress

Kate Douglas

Illuminating: conservation of neon lights

Trude Ellingsen

Brilliant vision: the making of Van Dyck’s dazzling portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny

Carl Villis

The power of ‘women’s work’: craftivism

Sigourney Jacks

The home front

Kate Darian-Smith

Behind the lines

Elena Taylor

Gallipoli

Dr Ted Gott

Prisoners and internees

Dr Petra Kayser

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

Dr Maria Quirk