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

Graeme Inson BH Travers, OBE, BA (Syd), MA, BLitt (Oxon)

oil on board

100.5 x 75 cm

Image courtesy Shore (Sydney Church of England Grammar School

This portrait by Graeme Inson of Basil Holmes ‘Jika’ Travers (1919–1998) is now in the collection of Shore (Sydney Church of England Grammar School). A Shore old boy, Travers was headmaster of the school from 1959 to 1984.