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

William Pidgeon Kenneth Slessor

oil on canvas

102 x 76 cm

Image courtesy Peter Pidgeon

This is the first of two portraits of poet and journalist Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971) that William Pidgeon exhibited in the Archibald Prize; the other was in 1961. The work is now in the WE Pidgeon Archives in the National Library of Australia, Canberra.