Laurie Thomas b. 19 January 1915

Also known as Laurence Nicholas Barrett Thomas
  • Curator
Laurie Thomas was a pioneer for professional standards in the two state galleries he headed, Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery. Later he was the most influential art critic of the Australian and that newspaper's nominee for director of the Australian National Gallery.
Tags: Art criticism, Aboriginal art, Lung cancer, Modernism
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  • 1950 - c.1974
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  • Art criticism
  • Aboriginal art
  • Lung cancer
  • Modernism
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Place St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic.
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Place Paddington, Sydney, NSW
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