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Tag Archives: Australian artists
Three Slithers of Walter Withers
[Images: Allegory to Spring (Portrait of Gladys Manifold) oil on canvas (1902); The Drover (1912) Bendigo Art Gallery] Walter Herbert Withers was an Australian landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionists (The Heidelberg School) along … Continue reading
This Nude Life of Janet Cumbrae-Stewart
[Images: Early in the Morning (1924 pastel on paper mounted on board NGA Canberra) Portrait of a Girl with Flowers (1922 pastel 74 cm x 53 cm) Janet Agnes Cumbrae-Stewart was born on 23 December, 1883 in the Melbourne Bayside … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings, Watercolours
Tagged Australian artists, female artists, nudes paintings, pastels
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Joyeux Noël | Festive Greetings to You All
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) provides emergency food and healthcare to children and women in countries that have been devastated by war or other significant emergencies. UNICEF has been selling greeting cards for over 70 years. These cards … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cards, GreetingCards, Illustrations
Tagged Anthony Harvey, Australian art, Australian artists, Danish art, Danish artists, Giksen Gross, Greeting cards, Unicef
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From Hot Winds to Hayricks, its a Garden Idyll
[Mrs. Conder (Portrait of Stella)], [Garden Idyll (ca.1906) 65.2 cm x 75.5 cm], [Hot Wind (1881) oil on board 29 cm x 75 cm] and [Hayricks in Giverny oil on canvas]. English-born painter, lithographer and designer Charles Edward Conder was … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Erotic Art, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged aestheticism, Australian artists, Heidelberg School of art
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What Are We Hanging Around For?
[Sea Country Spirits (2015-2016) consists of 32 sculptures of spirits, of takorra (sky) beeyak (land) and warri (sea); from Wathaurong country, which Jenny presents as a rhythmical dance of animated spirit forms of different scales, made from copper wire, tree … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Sculpture
Tagged Australian artists, Indigenous Australian art, Sea Country Spirits
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Un-Ironed T-Shirt | I’ve Got One of These Too
[Greg Warburton Self-portrait in Da Vinci T-shirt (2003) acrylic and charcoal and conte on paper on timber 180 x 120 cm.] Greg Warburton (born 1952), trained at Hornsby Technical College and Alexander Mackie College in the 1970s. From 1974 to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, StillLife
Tagged Archibald finalists, Australian artists, Da Vinci, Greg Warburton
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The Brother Hoods of Fiona Foley
[Badtjala people, Wondunna clan, Maryborough Queensland synthetic inks on textile- 7 robes with hoods] Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Badtjala, Fraser Island, Queensland. She studied at the Sydney College of the Arts, and as … Continue reading
