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

Nora Heysen Group Officer Clare Stevenson, director, WAAAF

oil on canvas

77 x 56.8 cm; 96.5 x 76.1 cm framed

Image courtesy Australian War Memorial, Canberra

This portrait by Nora Heysen of Clare Stevenson, director of the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force, is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. In the Archibald Prize 1943 list of works, Clare was misspelled Clair.