We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

Winner: Archibald Prize 1965

Clifton Pugh RA Henderson, Esq

oil on board

121.9 x 91.4 cm

The subject of this portrait by Clifton Pugh is journalist and media proprietor Rupert Albert Geary Henderson (1896-1986). Henderson was a director and former managing director of the newspaper publishing company John Fairfax Limited, which had commissioned the painting and presented it to its subject to celebrate his 50-year association with the company.