Rex Battarbee b. 1893

Also known as Reginald Ernest Battarbee
  • Artist (Painter)
Rex Battarbee worked as a commercial artist & landscape painter following training at the Commercial Art School, Melbourne under Leyshon White. He began an association with the Hermannsburg Mission while painting in the area and his work featured in exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney. This residency brought him into contact with Albert Namatjira and they began a lengthy association.
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Citations

  • French, Alison, 'Albert Namatjira’, National Gallery of Art catalogue, Canberra, ACT.

  • Hardy, Jane, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 13.

  • Murray, Daena (2001), 'Rex Battarbee: Artist and Art Collector’, World of Art and Antiques, 61st edition, July-December, pp. 125-130 (illustrations).

  • Jeff Turner “Outback Mourns death of Battarbee” (Adelaide News 4 september 1973)

  • Martin Edmond, “Battarbee and Namatjira.” Giramondo, 2014

  • Rex Battarbee. “Modern Australian Aboriginal Art.” 1951

  • Rex Battarbee and Ada Bernice Loone. “Modern Aboriginal Paintings.” Rigby, 1971

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