| BIOGRAPHY |
| 1999 |
Named ‘Australian Legend’ by Australia
Post. Dies in April |
| 1995 |
Australian of the Year |
| 1993-94 |
Major retrospective, AGNSW, Sydney |
| 1993 |
Made a gift to the nation of Riversdale
and Bundanon. AGNSW mounted amajor retrospective of his work:
paintings, prints, drawings and ceramics, which toured the country in 1994 |
| 1989-90 |
lived & worked in United Kingdom |
| 1988 |
Represented Australia at 43rd Venice
Biennale |
| 1979 |
Awarded the Order of Australia (AO) for
services to art |
| 1975 |
Presented several thousand works to NGA |
| 1971 |
Returned to Australia as Artist in
Residence at ANU. Soon after this, he and his wife purchased Riversdale at
Shoalhaven and Bundanon |
| 1966 |
Started Nebuchadnezzar paintings |
| 1959 |
Moved to London, exhibited with great
success particularly at WhitechapelGallery, and soon became one of
Australia's most highly regarded artists |
| 1945 |
Exhibited with Contemporary Art Society
in Melbourne and Sydney |
| 1941 |
Conscripted into the army. Met
influential peers such as John Perceval, Noel Counihan, Joy Hester, Albert
Tucker, Sidney Nolan, John and Sunday Reed |
| 1940 |
Held first full scale exhibition at
Athenaeum Gallery, Collins Street, Melbourne |
| 1937 |
Began to sell paintings to Sedon
Galleries in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne |
| 1935-36 |
Studied, various night classes at NGV
School. |
| 1935 |
Left school and began work in a paint
factory |
| 1934 |
Received Special 1st Award for Drawing at
Murrumbeena State School |
| 1933 |
Received 1st Award for Art at Murrumbeena
State School. |
| 1920 |
Born Melbourne, Australia |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| Arthur Boyd held numerous solo shows in
Australia and overseas over the years including Whitechapel Gallery and
Zwemmer Gallery, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Demarco Gallery,
Edinburgh; Australian National University, Freemantle Arts Centre, Queensland
University Art Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wagner Gallery, Tokyo &
Kyoto, Japan |
| 1986, 87, 89: Works Gallery, Geelong;
1985: Solander Gallery Canberra; Holdsworth Gallery Sydney ; 1988 HPAC; 1988,
89 BMG Sydney; 1989.
Wagner Gallery |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 1988 |
Commonwealth Institute, London |
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Venice Biennale |
| 1987 |
Australian Consulate General, Los Angeles |
| 1985 |
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC |
| 1978 |
'Landscape and Image', Australian Gallery
Directors Council Travelling Exhibition to Indonesia |
| 1964 |
Australian Painters Exhibition (Mertz
Collection) Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC |
| 1958 |
Venice Biennale |
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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| National Gallery of Australia
, Art
Gallery of New South Wales,
National Gallery of Victoria,
Art
Gallery of South Australia
, Art Gallery of Western Australia
,
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
, Queensland Art
Gallery
, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery
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| AWARDS |
| 1950 |
Dunlop Prizes, Melbourne
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| 1958 |
Ku-ring-gai Prize, NSW |
| 1963 |
Henry Caselli Richards Prizes, Brisbane |
| 1971 |
Brittanica Australia Award
|
| 1979 |
Office of the Order of Australia
conferred 'for service to art’ |
| 1992 |
Companion of the Order of Australia |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Franz Philipp Arthur Boyd, Thames &
Hudson, London, 1967
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| von Maltzahn Imre, Arthur Boyd Etchings
and Lithographs, Lund Humphries, London, 1971 |
| Thomas Laurie intro, Arthur Boyd Drawings
1934-70, Secker & Warburg, London, 1973
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| Dobrez & Herbst, The Art of the
Boyds, Bay Books, 1991
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| Hoff, Ursula, The Art of Arthur Boyd,
Deutsch, London, 1986 |
| Pearce Barry, Arthur Boyd retrospective
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 1994 |
| Grazia Gunn ‘Arthur Boyd 1920-1999’ Art
& Australia, vol. 37 no. 2, Dec 1999 – Feb 2000 |
| McKenzie, J. Arthur Boyd: Art & Life,
Thames & Hudson, London, 2000 |