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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 - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation Portal )Brett 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...
The Robin and the Moon 1981 Oil on canvas 87 x 87 cm click here to close this window...
Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Mother and Child 1977 Etching 32/60 60.5 x 45cm (plate size) 75.5 x 53cm (sheet size) Edition of 60, with 8-10 APs Printer: Max Miller, Sydney Publisher: Port Jackson Press, Sydney Exhibited: 'Recent Paintings and Drawings', Fis...
Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Palm Tree 2 1975 Screenprint (printed in 2 colours) 12/50 81.5 x 60cm (plate size) 102 x 76cm (sheet size) Edition of 50 Printer: Display Productions, Sydney Exhibited: 'Recent Paintings and Drawings,' Fischer Fine Art Limited, ...
Seagull 1984 sugarlift aquatint 76 x 56 cm Edition: 19/30 no. 5673 click here to close this window...
Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Towards Sculpture 7 1977 Lithograph 31/50 82.7 x 60.9 cm (image size) 90 x 63cm (sheet size) Signed and numbered Printed at Curwen Studio, London Exhibited: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, Septem...
Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Young Baboon 1977 Sugarlift Aquatint A/P 50 x 49.5cm (plate size) 75 x 53cm (sheet size) Edition of 60, with 8-10 APs Printer: Max Miller, Sydney Publisher: Port Jackson Press, Sydney Literature: Brett Whiteley: The Graphics, De...
Untitled (Nude) 1985 is a magnificent work which celebrates the three of the most important elements in his body of work; Wendy Whiteley, the sensual curve and the female form. The nude is one of the most important and most celebrated subjects in Brett W...
Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) Towards Sculpture 5 1977 Lithograph 27/50 90 x 63cm (sheet size) Stamped with monogram upper right Signed 'Brett Whiteley' lower right Edition of 50, with 5 artist proofs Part of a portfolio of 8 lithographs Printed at Curwen St...
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