Brett Whiteley

In the late seventies Brett Whiteley had great success with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, winning all of their major prizes twice. These were the Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prizes, considered some of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious art prizes in Australia. His wins were: 1976 Archibald Prize: Self Portrait in the Studio Sulman Prize: Interior with Time Past 1977 Wynne Prize: The Jacaranda Tree (On Sydney Harbour) ...

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) located in The Domain in Sydney, Australia, is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the second largest in Australia after the National Gallery of Victoria. Admission is free to the general exhibition space, which features Australian (from settlement to contemporary) and Asian art; admission is charged to feature exhibitions in closed areas. The gallery has the usual range of facilities for visitors, including easy access for the disabled, restaurants and coffee shops, and one of Au ...

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Established in 1874, the gallery early on bought some large works from Europe such as Ford Madox Brown's Chaucer at the Court of Edward III. Later they bought work from Australian artists such as Streeton's 1891 Fire's on, Roberts' 1894 The Golden Fleece and McCubbin's 1896 On the wallaby track. Includes works by many Australian artists, including 19th Century Australian artists such as John Glover, Arthur Streeton, Eugene von Guerard, John Russell, Tom Roberts, David Davies, Charles Conder, W.C. Piguenit, E. Phillips Fox ...

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The prize has historically attracted a good deal of controversy and several court cases; the most famous in 1943 when William Dobell's win was challenged because of claims it was a caricature rather than a painting. Max Meldrum criticised the Archibald Prize winner in 1938, saying that women could not be expected to paint as well as men. Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, with a portrait of Madame Elink Schuurman, the ...

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Leading up to World War I, the decorative arts, including miniature, watercolour painting, and functional objects such as vases, became more prominent in the Australian arts scene. Norman Lindsay's works caused considerable scandal around the turn of the century. One famous drawing, Politice verso, caused his first scandal, as it depicted a "writhing bacchanal of nude Romans" giving the thumbs-down to "a scrawny figure hung on a cross". By this time, women's artworks started to attract wider attention, such as the pastels of Florence Rodway, or the paintings of Grace Cossington Smith, who painted the S ...

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Art of Australia, Art of Australia - Aboriginal art, Art of Australia - Early Colonial Art, Art of Australia - Early 19th Century, Art of Australia - Heidelberg School, Art of Australia - 20th Century, Art of Australia - List of Australian artists

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Hotel Chelsea - Writers and thinkers. During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Brendan Behan, Robert Oppenheimer, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Hotel Chelsea - Actors and film directors. The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Milo ...

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As well as natural history, there were some ethnographic portraiture of Aborigines, particularly in the 1830s. Some of the most notable artists include Augustus Earle in New South Wales and Thomas Bock in Tasmania. Conrad Martens worked from 1835 to 1878 as a professional artists, painting many landscapes. He was commercially successful. His work, though, is regarded as softening the landscape to fit European sensibilities. Another si ...

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Art of Australia, Art of Australia - Aboriginal art, Art of Australia - Early Colonial Art, Art of Australia - Early 19th Century, Art of Australia - Heidelberg School, Art of Australia - 20th Century, Art of Australia - List of Australian artists

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The beginnings of Australian art are often popularly associated with the Heidelberg School in the 1880s. Some historians, including Sayers (2001), regard this as an exaggeration, noting earlier nineteeth century artists, as well as contemporary artists (particularly women) not recognised as part of this movement, as well as noting the strong connections between the art of the school and the wider Impressionist movement. However, even given these qualifications, Sayers states that "there remains something excitingly original and indusitably i ...

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The first depictions of Australia by European artists were mainly "natural-history art", depicting the distinctive flora and fauna for scientific purposes. Sydney Parkinson, the plant draftsperson on James Cook's 1770 voyage that first charted the eastern coastline of Australia, made a large number of such drawings under the direction of naturalist Joseph Banks. Despite Banks' suggestions, no professional natural-history artist sailed on the First Fleet in 1788, so until the turn of the century all drawings made in the colony were by ...

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The first prize awarded in 1921 was 400 pounds. In the early years of the Archibald Prize, the winner was dominated by Victorians, such as McInnes, Longstaff, and Dargie, which was somewhat resented by the art community in Sydney. In 1942 William Dargie won the prize with a painting which he had done as an official war artist during World War 2 in Syria. The ship carrying the painting back to Australia sank and was underwater for some time. 1946 was the first year in which the trustees selected works for entry, rather than displaying all those entered. Less than half ...

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The Archibald is held at the same time as the Sulman prize, the Wynne prize, the recent Australian Photographic Portrait Prize and was held with the Dobell Prize before 2003. The Archibald prize is the second richest portrait prize in Australia, before the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. However, the Archibald is the only artist's prize that receives much attention in the general press. Part of the reason is probably that many of the paintings feature prominent Australians such as actors, sportspeople, and politicians, and thus making the art more accessible than other genres. It is also longer running with a richer ...

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Since 1988 there have been two extra categories added to the Archibald prize event. Both are more likely to award a celebrity such as actor or musician, than the main prize. One of them being the Packing Room Prize in which the staff, who receive the portraits and install them in the gallery, vote for their choice of winner. Although the prize is said to be awarded by the staff, the gallery's storeman, Steve Peters, has held 51% of the vote since 1991, when the first Packing room prize was given. The other category is the Peoples C ...

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Increasingly dependent on alcohol, and then addicted to heroin, Whiteley's work output declined, although its market value continued to climb. He made several attempts to dry out and get off drugs completely, all ultimately unsuccessful. In 1989, he divorced Wendy, whom he had always credited as his 'muse', and on June 15, 1992 he died of a heroin overdose alone in a motel in Thirroul, north of Wollongong, New South Wales. In 1999 Brett Whiteley's painting The Jacaranda Tree (1977) which had won the Wynne Prize, sold for $1,982,000, a record for a modern Australian painter. Before this, his previous highest selling wor ...

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