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Brett Whiteley - Australia's Culture PortalBrett Whiteley is one of Australia's most revered artists. He won many prizes and awards and his work hangs in numerous galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New Yor...
Barbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...
Winner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...
Artbank was founded by the Australian Government in 1980 to buy Australian contemporary art and rent it out to public and private sector clients. Instead of only seeing Australian art in galleries, Artbank ensures that more Australian art can be seen in m...
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...
Russell Drysdale, Picture of Donald Friend, 1948. Hill End, a gold-rush town, 85km north of Bathurst in central New South Wales (NSW) is a sacred site in both NSW and also Australian art history. These artists include: John Olsen, Margaret Olley, Jeffre...
The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...
Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
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The Brett Whiteley Studio was the workplace and home of Australian artist Brett Whiteley (1939-1992). The visitor is offered the unique opportunity to experience the atmosphere of the studio and living space, and the gallery has changing exhibitions of th
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Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Another Way of Looking at Van Gogh Suite of three etchings and book i) The Back of the Asylum St Remy signed 'Brett Whiteley' lower right 21 x 37cm ii) Self Portrait One of Dozen of Glimpses signed 'Brett' lower right 36 x 21cm (website Leonard Joel )Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Another Way of Looking at Van Gogh Suite of three etchings and book i) The Back of the Asylum St Remy signed 'Brett Whiteley' lower right 21 x 37cm ii) Self Portrait One of Dozen of Glimpses signed 'Brett' lower right 36 x 21cm ...
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Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Nude etching 41/60 signed 'Brett Whiteley' lower right editioned lower left 61 x 45.5cm Provenance: John Buckley Contemporary Art 1987 > Preview:>Wednesday 24 February 2010 9am - 8pm>Thursday 25 February 2010 9am - 5pm>Friday 26...
Born: 07 April 1939 Longueville, Sydney, New South Wales Died: 15 June 1992 Thirroul, New South Wales Brett WHITELEY Evening coming in on Sydney Harbour ...
Born: 07 April 1939 Longueville, Sydney, New South Wales worked in England 1960-67 Died: 15 June 1992 Thirroul, New South Wales ...
> The peach tree in blossom, vase Brett WHITELEY (decorator), Harriet COLLARD (thrower) (1981) earthenware D76-1982 > Drawing of an ape Brett WHITELEY 1965 paint, pencil and charcoal on paper and transparent syntheti... > Lipstick Brett WHITELEY (1981) c...
Born: 07 April 1939 Longueville, Sydney, New South Wales Brett WHITELEY (decorator), Harriet COLLARD (thrower) The peach tree in blossom, vase (1981) paint, pencil and charcoal on paper and transparent synthetic polymer resin on composition board...
Born: 07 April 1939 Longueville, Sydney, New South Wales Died: 15 June 1992 Thirroul, New South Wales Brett WHITELEY (decorator) The peach tree in blossom, vase ...
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