Eva Breuer Art Dealer project

All items in Eva Breuer Art Dealer project (192)

image of Davidson, Bessie
Davidson, Bessie, b. 1879
Originally from Adelaide and a student and friend of Margaret Preston, Bessie Davidson was a very successful artist. She spent the majority of her life ...
Updated July 1, 2024
image of Connor, Kevin
Connor, Kevin, b. 1932
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, ...
Updated April 6, 2024
image of Stokes, Constance
Stokes, Constance, b. 1906
Stokes' art shows her interest in the human form, in particular the female figure. Her powerful nude female studies are beyond the erotic or decorative, ...
Updated Nov. 8, 2023
image of Preston, Margaret
Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Updated Sept. 14, 2023
image of Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah
Pyke, Guelda Esther Leah, b. 1905
Australian ceramist, jewellery and fashion designer who, after visits to Bali and training with George Bell, took up painting in the 1950s and worked in ...
Updated Sept. 10, 2023
image of Williams, Fred
Williams, Fred, b. 1927
Fred Williams' paintings of the Australian landscape can be seen as a modernist reinterpretation of the Heidelberg tradition. He was a figurative artist who valued ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Crooke, Ray
Crooke, Ray, b. 1922
Crooke began his career as an artist at a Melbourne advertising agency while taking courses as Swinburne Technical College. After 1939-45 war service, he taught, ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
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de Maistre, Roy, b. 1894
Roy De Maistre, along with Roland Wakelen and Grace Cossington Smith was one of the pioneers of Post Impressionism in Australia. Later, in England, he ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
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Leach-Jones, Alun, b. 1937
Alun Leach-Jones was one of the generation of artists who helped define Australian colourfield art in the 1960s. Hie first came to prominence exhibiting in ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Nolan, Sidney
Nolan, Sidney, b. 1917
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 ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Lymburner, Francis
Lymburner, Francis, b. 1916
Brisbane born artist Francis Lymburner first came to prominence as one of the members of Sydney's Charm School in the late 1940s. His subject matter ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Lindsay, Percy
Lindsay, Percy, b. 1870
Painter and illustrator, working in Creswick, Melbourne, Sydney and regional NSW. Eldest artistic member of the Lindsay siblings whose most admired works are his sensitive ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of French, Leonard
French, Leonard, b. 1928
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Blackman, Charles
Blackman, Charles, b. 1928
The Antipodean artist Charles Blackman was best known for his paintings of schoolgirls and the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland. He was a part of ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Gleeson, James
Gleeson, James, b. 1915
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Murch, Arthur James
Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Lawrence, George F.
Lawrence, George F., b. 1901
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
image of Macqueen, Kenneth
Macqueen, Kenneth, b. 1897
A trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery, Macqueen studied art in London after serving with the Australian Imperial Forces during World War One. On returning ...
Updated Sept. 1, 2023
image of Irving, Tony
Irving, Tony, b. 1939
Melbourne based painter, illustrator and designer. In 1982-83 was artist-in-residence with the Victorian Trades Hall, commissioned to depict life on the workshop floor.
Updated Sept. 1, 2023
image of Larwill, David
Larwill, David, b. 1956
Updated Sept. 1, 2023
image of Olsen, John
Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
Updated Sept. 1, 2023
image of Juniper, Robert
Juniper, Robert, b. 1929
Updated Sept. 1, 2023
image of Appleton, Jean
Appleton, Jean, b. 1911
Appleton was a painter and craftworker who studied at East Sydney Technical College and at the Westminster School, London. After seeing French sculptor Maillol's work ...
Updated Aug. 31, 2023
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Shead, Gria, b. 1972
Shead is a painter and printmaker. She trained at the National Art School, Sydney.
Updated June 12, 2023
image of Montgomery, Anne
Montgomery, Anne, b. 1908
Updated May 17, 2023