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Helen French-Kennedy AJ Grassby

mixed media on masonite

124 x 94 cm (framed)

Image courtesy the artist's estate

The subject of this portrait by Helen French-Kennedy is Albert Jaime (Al) Grassby, a politician in the Australian Labor Party. Grassby was described by a newspaper at the time as the 'colourful special advisor to the Australian Government on community affairs’.