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Baker, Normand Henry, b. 1908
Mid 20th century Sydney painter and sketcher. Baker exhibited in the 1937 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Carington Smith, Jack, b. 1908
Prolific mid 20th century painter based in Hobart and Sydney. Jack Carington Smith won numerous awards and prizes including the 1949 Sir John Sulman Prize ...
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Fullbrook, Sam, b. 1922
Skilled colourist and tonalist proficient in pastel, watercolour and oil painting. Painter who lived only briefly in Perth.
Hele, Ivor, b. 1912
A leading figurative artist working in Adelaide in the mid 20th century. Hele served as a war artist in the Second World War and Korean ...
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Heysen, Nora, b. 1911
The daughter of painter Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen was highly regarded as an artist in her own right. In 1938 she became the first woman ...
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Kahan, Louis, b. 1905
Louis Kahan was a versatile, multi-talented artist and designer. He served in the French Foreign Legion and worked as a tailor in Paris where he ...
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Looby, Keith, b. 1940
Contemporary Sydney painter and illustrator known for his work 'Black-and-White History of Australia.
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Molvig, Jon, b. 1923
Apart from being one of Australia's major figurative expressionist painters, Jon Molvig became a significant inspiration for the art scene in Brisbane when he settled ...
Pidgeon, William Edwin, b. 1909
Popular mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor and art critic. Pidgeon won the Archibald Prize three times - in 1958, 1961 and 1969, ...
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Smith, Joshua, b. 1905
Painter, predominantly of traditional portraits whose sitters included fellow artist Lloyd Rees. Smith, who also worked as an art teacher, won the Archibald Prize in ...
Warren, Guy, b. 1921
Warren is a painter who began his career at the Bulletin, later studying privately with J.S. Watkins and studied art in Australia and England. Returning ...
Wheeler, Charles Arthur, b. 1880
painter and art teacher, Melbourne. His artwork 'The Fancy Dress' 1909 was shown in the Fine Art Society's Galleries, Melbourne. Another artwork of his is ...
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Meldrum, Max, b. 1875
After winning a National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship and moving to Paris to study, Scottish-born painter Max Meldrum found himself out of sympathy with the ...
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Pugh, Clifton, b. 1924
Influential mid 20th century Melbourne painter and illustrator
Dobell, William, b. 1899
William Dobell came from a working class family in Newcastle to become one of Australia's most loved artist and the creator of fashionable portraits. He ...
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Dawson, Janet, b. 1935
Painter, printmaker and designer working in the mid twentieth century. She studied at the National Gallery School in the 1950s and joined the stable of ...
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Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
Abbott Roberts, Mary Margaret, b. 1916
Mary Abbott Roberts, who also exhibited under her maiden name of Mary Abbott, was born in Quirindi in rural New South Wales and studied in ...
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Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
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Whiteley, Brett, b. 1939
Brett Whiteley was the first Australian to combine a pop star's persona with that of a visual artist. He worked across the mediums of painting, ...