Nan Hortin b. 3 February 1916

Also known as Nan Lyall, Nancy Hortin
  • Artist (Painter)
A committed member of the Communist Youth League, Hortin was also a foundation member of the Studio of Realist Art, and while in Sydney was influenced by the Mexican muralist Diego Riviera. After she moved to North Queensland in the early 1960s however her style changed completely.

Citations

  • (1946), 'Women Painters’ Catalogue’.

  • Kerr, Joan & Holder, Jo (1998), 'Past Present’.

  • Haefliger, Paul (1942), 'Nan Hortin drawings’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12-01, p.7.

  • Hortin, Nan (1945), 'Port Kembla Strike’, Progress, (art supplement), December, pages 34-39.

  • Jones, Kevin (1995), 'On the Waterfront – Wharfies, artists, actors’, Travelling exhibition brochure, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, NSW.

  • McGuire, James (1946), 'SORA Soirees’, Angry Penguins Broadsheet N2, January, pages 2-5.

  • Merewether, Charles (1984), 'Art & Social Commitment – An end to the city of dreams 1931-1948’, Catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Stein, Harry (1939), 'Artists & Rebels of the Waterfront (Workers Series no. 2) – An exhibition of drawings, oils, etchings, linocuts & watercolours, 1939-92’, Waterside Workers Federation, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Smail, Jean.

  • (1946), 'Is Australian Ballet dying?’, Pix, August, 10, pp.12-15.

  • (1941), 'Woman Represents Peace’, Art in Australia, Volume 4, Issue 2, June-August.

  • (1946), Studio of Realist Art Bulletin, No 9, March.

  • (1947), 'Exhibition by Studio of Realist Art’, Sydney Morning Herald, 08-21.

  • Information sourced from Lawrence, Iris.

  • Information sourced from Davison, Cristine.

  • Information sourced from Kelly, John.

See also

  • 'A Little Bit Tipsy (Cruthers col.) or The Protestors c.1960, drawing in purple pencil on paper (Wrobel collection).'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists