Collection advanced search

Searches all text except for provenance, bibliography and exhibition details.

Examples

• Asian pottery
• dogs
• Pitjantjatjara

Searches all artist name information (including alternate names not displayed in results).

Examples

• Heysen (matches all artists called Heysen)
• Heysen -Nora (removes Nora Heysen works from the results)

Filters results by artist’s country of origin or residence.

Note: multiple matches works that have multiple artists, both male and female.

Search for works by an artist from a particular indigenous language group.

Search for works by an artist from a particular indigenous community.

Searches work titles (including alternate titles). Sensitive to words like a, the and of, and uses stricter matching (eg dog does not match dogs).

Examples

• Fire's on
• dog
• dogs
• untitled

CE means Common Era and is the equivalent of AD. Entering a date only in the ‘from’ field will include works from that date until now. Entering a date only in the ‘to’ field will include works until that date. Entering dates in both ‘from’ and ‘to’ fields will include only works between those dates, inclusive.

Example

• From 1940 includes all works dated 1940 or later
• To 1940 includes all works dated 1940 or earlier
• From 1940 to 1945 includes all works dated between 1940 and 1945
• From 1940 to 1940 includes all works dated 1940

Fuzzy dates include works that may be in that date range.

Example

• From 1820 to 1860 [fuzzy] would include works dated ‘19th century’ and ‘circa 1862’

Examples

• glass
• polymer

Searches credit information for artworks, including donor names and the year the work was acquired.

Examples

• John Kaldor
• 2011

Matches works by copyright holder or agency.

Examples

• Copyright Agency
• Jeff Koons

An accession number is the unique id that the Gallery gives to each work. You can enter multiple accession numbers, each separated by a comma or space.

Examples

• 174.2006
• 133.1999 174.2006

The ownership history of the work.

Example

• Sotheby's

Some publications in which a work has been featured. Search by publication title, author or year of publication.

Examples

• Sydney Morning Herald
• Robert Hughes

Some exhibitions in which a work has been featured, including those at the Art Gallery of NSW and elsewhere. Search by exhibition title, venue or year.

Example

• Boomalli: 20 years on

For works on display only. Filters results by location in the Gallery.

Search relevance automatically sorts results by those we feel most closely match your search terms. If your search does not involve entering search terms, it return results in random order.

To sort all works in the collection by title, artist name or date, leave all other fields blank.