Kevin Connor b. 1932

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Kevin Connor (b. 1932, Sydney) has lived and worked in Sydney for most his life, apart from periods of painting and study in London, Paris, New York, Spain and Egypt, with extensive travels in Europe, the USA and the Middle East.
Tags: Archibald Prize
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exhibited at
Kevin Connor: drawings
Date
4 July 2015 - 6 August 2015
Place
Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Kevin Connor: Sketchbooks, drawings & studies for paintings and sculpture
Date
28 April 2006 - 25 June 2006
Place
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Kevin Connor: paintings and drawings 1947-1988
Date
1989
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Organised by AGNSW and toured to Heide and TMAG

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Kevin Connor: paintings and drawings 1947-1988. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1989
ISBN 070563669

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Drawing
exhibited at
Kevin Connor: the portraits 1961-1988
Date
1988
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, UNSW, Paddington, NSW
Description

This exhibition is the first selected survey of three decades of the artist’s portraiture, includes Archibald Prize entries and Connor’s two winning portraits, the 1975 Portrait of the Rt Hon Frank Kitto, KBE, now in the collection of the University of England and the 1977 Portrait of Robert Klippel, from the collection of the AGNSW.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
IDG archive printout 2002; Kevin Connor: selected portraits. Paddington, Sydney: Ivan Dougerty Gallery, New South Wales Institute of the Arts, 1988

Exhibition Catalogue:
Kevin Connor: selected portraits. Paddington, Sydney: Ivan Dougerty Gallery, New South Wales Institute of the Arts, 1988
ISBN 0 7305 5709

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Drawing
exhibited at
Christmas exhibition
Date
5 December 1974 - 20 December 1974
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Metropolis 2: an exhibition of 21 city painters
Date
21 July 1964 - 1 August 1964
Place
Crana Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Crana Gallery
exhibited at
Metropolis 1: an exhibition by twenty-one prominent Sydney painters
Date
7 July 1963 - 20 July 1963
Description

inaugural exhibition at Crana Gallery

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Crana Gallery

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