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Sidney Nolan b. 22 April 1917

Also known as Sir Sidney Robert Nolan

Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
Artist (Theatre / Film Designer),
Artist (Draughtsman),
Artist (Painter)

Sir Sidney Nolan, the son of a Melbourne tram driver, became one of Australia's most celebrated and honoured artists. His Ned Kelly series made him a household name. Working in several media and art forms - painting, drawing, printmaking, set design, murals, spray painting and collage - he created more than 10,000 individual works.

Tags: Australian mythology, Heide, Ned Kelly, Herald Exhibition of English and European Contemporary Art

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Numerous other public, corporate, institutional and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and elsewhere
Tate Gallery, London, England, UK
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
University of Western Australia Art Collection, Perth, WA

Website

http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne, VIC
Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, ACT

Website

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/nolan/
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA

Description

The Art Gallery of Western Australia was founded in 1895. It is located in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge, with the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA

Description

The Art Gallery of South Australia was founded in 1881. It is located at the heart of Adelaide’s cultural boulevard, North Terrace, between the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide.

Website

http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Queensland Art Gallery

Website

http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Description

The Art Gallery of New South Wales began in the 1870s as an aspect of the Academy of Art. Later it became known as the National Art Gallery of NSW. This name persisted beyond Federation in 1901. It was given its present name in 1958.
It remains the principal collecting and exhibiting body in NSW and is governed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act of 1980.

Website

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Description

Website

http://cs.nga.gov.au/Default.cfm
Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Vic.

Description

This Collection began when Dr John Orde Poynton generously donated 3,700 Old Master prints in 1959. In 1964, the Collection was enhanced by Harold Wright’s bequest of half his collection of Lionel Lindsay prints and prints by W. P. Robins and H. J. Stuart Brown. It has since been supplemented by gifts and purchases to number over 8,000 prints and volumes from the 15th to the 20th centuries, including paintings.

Website

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/prints/

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United Kingdom, America, Canada, Europe and Asia (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: a new retrospective (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: desert and drought (exhibited at) Sir Sidney Nolan: an exhibition to celebrate Sidney Nolan's 75th birthday (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: Legends and Landscapes (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: the city and the plain (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: 102 works from the first fifteen years (1939-53) (exhibited at) Nolan's Gallipoli (exhibited at) Nolan at Lanyon: an exhibition of the Sidney Nolan gift of twenty-four paintings to the Australian people (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: Ern Malley and Paradise Garden (exhibited at) The Australian Landscape (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings from 1937-1967 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: African journey (exhibited at) Rebels and precursors: aspects of painting in Melbourne 1937-1947 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: Leda and the Swan and other recent work (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan (exhibited at) The 'Kelly' paintings of Sidney Nolan 1946-47 (exhibited at) Three members of the Contemporary Art Society: Nolan, Boyd and Tucker (exhibited at) Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sidney Nolan (exhibited at) Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: landscapes and legends: a retrospective 1937-1987 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: Ern Malley and paradise garden (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: landscape and legends, a retrospective exhibition 1937-1987 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan at the Metropolitan (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan drawings (exhibited at) Nolan: Wimmera landscapes (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: a seventy-fifth birthday celebration (exhibited at) Nolan: landscapes & legends (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: the city and the plain (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: works on paper (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan landscapes and legends: a retropsective exhibition 1937-1987 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: myth and history (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan and Igor Horenko (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: notes for Oedipus (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: burning at Glenrowan (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: paintings on slate 1941-42 and new drawings 1977 (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: recent drawings on themes from Samuel Beckett (exhibited at) Arthur Boyd: family and friends (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan trio (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan's complete works from the Heide collection (exhibited at) The Ned Kelly paintings: Nolan at Heide 1946-47 (exhibited at) Burning at Glenrowan: Sidney Nolan (exhibited at) Sidney Nolan: desert and drought (exhibited at) The plains: Wimmera and the imaging of Australian landscape: Philip Hunter and Sidney Nolan (exhibited at) Recent Australian Painting (exhibited at) Recent Past (exhibited at)

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Sidney Nolan b. 22 April 1917

Numerous other public, corporate, institutional and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and elsewhere

Tate Gallery, London, England, UK

Australian National University, Canberra, ACT

University of Western Australia Art Collection, Perth, WA

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne, VIC

Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, ACT

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC

Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Queensland Art Gallery

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Vic.

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