Robert Hughes b. c.1938

Also known as Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, Bob Hughes
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Influential late 20th century painter, cartoonist and critic.
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painter, cartoonist and critic, left Architecture at SU without a degree and worked briefly as a cartoonist and illustrator on the Sydney Telegraph . He did most of the artwork in the Observer 1958-59, where he was paid 10/6 for a small drawing. He also contributed cartoons and art criticism to Nation (1959 to mid-1960s), the Sunday Mirror and Art and Australia (from 1963). Worked in London during the late 1960s. In 1970 he left for the US to become art critic on Time magazine.

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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007

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  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)