Eva Breuer Art Dealer project

All items in Eva Breuer Art Dealer project (192)

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Bryans, Lina, b. 1909
A somewhat peripatetic artist whose wanderlust took her to Europe, America and Central Australia, Lina Bryans was noted for her landscapes and her abstract modernism.
Updated May 17, 2023
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Harding, Nicholas, b. 1956
painter, sketcher, printmaker, illustrator and animator. After studying art in the mid 1970s, Harding travelled through Europe, then returned to Australia, where he developed a ...
Updated Nov. 8, 2022
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Pugh, Clifton, b. 1924
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne painter and illustrator
Updated Oct. 4, 2022
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Dunlop, Brian, b. 1940
Brian Dunlop's understated paintings and drawings were influenced by Renaissance art, as well as the Charm School artists who were his teachers in Sydney. His ...
Updated Oct. 1, 2022
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Smith, Grace Cossington, b. 1892
Painter, born in Neutral Bay, Sydney. A student of Dattilo Rubbo, Cossington Smith was quick to absorb modernist ideas and in 1915 exhibited 'The Sock ...
Updated Sept. 8, 2022
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Proud, Geoffrey, b. 1946
Updated Sept. 7, 2022
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Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, b. 1910
One of the best known desert artists and a senior woman in Utopia (NT), Kngwarreye's work is distinctive for its expressive abstract style. The recipient ...
Updated Aug. 5, 2022
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Whisson, Ken, b. 1927
Ken Whisson combined a strong social conscience with an ascetic life style. His paintings and drawings were intuitive approaches to things seen and felt. He ...
Updated May 6, 2022
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Powditch, Peter, b. 1942
Peter Powditch first began to paint and sculpt his celebrations of the beach and bikini culture in the late 1960s. He was also active as ...
Updated March 30, 2022
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Kelly, John, b. 1965
Updated March 14, 2022
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Stavrianos, Wendy, b. 1941
Painter and printmaker, had a retrospective at the Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery in 1997.
Updated Feb. 12, 2022
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Lynn, Elwyn , b. 1917
Artist, critic and cultural warrior Elwyn (Jack) Lynn was one of the most influential figures in mid-twentieth century Australian art. In the 1950s as his ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2021
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Fairweather, Ian, b. 1891
The Scottish born artist Ian Fairweather travelled extensively throughout South East Asia and China before finally building a thatched hut on Bribie Island off the ...
Updated Aug. 6, 2021
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Whiteley, Brett, b. 1939
Brett Whiteley was the first Australian to combine a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist. He worked across the mediums of painting, ...
Updated May 10, 2021
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Thake, Eric, b. 1904
Mid 20th century Melbourne surrealist, graphic and commercial artist and illustrator, designer and painter. A mural by Thake for the ETA peanut butter factory, Braybrook ...
Updated May 9, 2021
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Shead, Garry, b. 1942
Film maker, cartoonist and Archibald and Dobell Prize winning artist Garry Shead's work is held in most major public collections in Australia. He has created ...
Updated April 2, 2021
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Parr, Mike, b. 1945
Working across a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography, Mike Parr is regarded as one of the most ...
Updated Jan. 21, 2021
Olley, Margaret, b. 1923
After her first Australian solo painting exhibitions, Olley worked and exhibited in France in the 1950s. An endearing personality, Olley had many travelling and working ...
Updated Dec. 19, 2020
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Mora, Mirka Madeleine, b. 1928
Mirka Mora’s joyeous experimental art gave a bohemian flavour to Melbourne life, both with her former husband, the resistance fighter and restaurateur Georges, and then ...
Updated Dec. 19, 2020
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Heysen, Nora, b. 1911
The daughter of painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen was highly regarded as an artist in her own right. In 1938 she became the first woman ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Hester, Joy, b. 1920
Painter known for her ink works. She was married to painter Albert Tucker and associated with many significant Australian modernist artists during the 1940s.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Gascoigne, Rosalie, b. 1917
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Dyring, Moya, b. 1909
A painter, working primarily in Brisbane and Paris. A reference has been made to her work as a muralist with Sam Atyeo in Melbourne.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
Updated Dec. 11, 2020
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Stewart, Janet Agnes Cumbrae, b. 1883
Early 20th century Melbourne painter and pastellist.
Updated Dec. 11, 2020