The Australian Landscape 1972- 1973

All items in The Australian Landscape 1972- 1973 (49)

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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
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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
Long, Sydney, b. 1871
Sydney Long established an early reputation in the 1890s as a painter of decorative Art Nouveau landscape and mythological subjects. Later, in London, some of ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
Davies, David, b. 1864
David Davies, the son of a Ballarat miner, first came to public notice in the late 1880s when he was a student at the National ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
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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
Passmore, John, b. 1904
When John Passmore returned to Sydney from an extended stay in Europe in 1951 he galvanised a generation of young painters. They were led to ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
Dobell, William, b. 1899
William Dobell came from a working class family in Newcastle to become one of Australia's most loved artist and the creator of fashionable portraits. He ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
Conder, Charles, b. 1868
Painter Charles Conder is best known in Australia for his association with the Heidelberg School and his involvement with the famous 9 x 5 Impressions ...
Updated Sept. 2, 2023
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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
McCubbin, Frederick, b. 1855
From the 1880s, when his first mature work was painted, until just before his death in 1917, Frederick McCubbin painted some of Australia's most loved ...
Updated Aug. 31, 2023
Streeton, Arthur, b. 1867
A member of the Heidelberg School and part of the famous '9 x 5' Impressions Exhibition in Melbourne, Arthur Streeton spent a number of years ...
Updated Aug. 31, 2023
Miller, Godfrey, b. 1893
The New Zealand born Godfrey Miller became one of Australia's most admired artists of the mid-twentieth century. His shyness, combined with the way he continued ...
Updated May 22, 2023
Shore, Arnold, b. 1897
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne modernist painter, teacher, critic and cartoonist. Shore began his career designing stained glass. In the 1920s he consistently supported Post-Impressionist ...
Updated May 17, 2023
Lindsay, Frances, b.
Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, whose first curatorial position was as Brian Finemore's Associate Curator of Australian Art, has a ...
Updated March 15, 2023
Taylor, Michael, b. 1933
Michael Taylor's lush abstract paintings emerged in the 1970s. They were seductive in the way they simultaneously quoted elements of landscape and celebrated the abstract ...
Updated Oct. 30, 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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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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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
Heysen, Hans, b. 1877
German-born, Adelaide-based painter. Probably more than any other artist, Hans Heysen changed the way Australia saw the gum tree, as for many, many years his ...
Updated Oct. 22, 2020
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Perceval, John, b. 1923
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting ...
Updated March 20, 2019
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Tucker, Albert, b. 1914
Albert Tucker was one of the Angry Penguins group of artists who were at Heide in the 1940s. His art was shaped in part by ...
Updated March 18, 2019
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Boyd, Arthur, b. 1920
A member of the gifted Boyd family, and grandson of his namesake, the painter Arthur Merric Boyd, Arthur first attended night classes at Melbourne's National ...
Updated March 18, 2019
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Strachan, David, b. 1919
David Strachan, the son of the Lindsay family's doctor, studied in London and Paris before attending the George Bell School in Melbourne. He is most ...
Updated March 18, 2019
Roberts, Tom, b. 1856
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2019