Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen
Author: Jane Hylton
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781862548404

Nora Heysen grew up at The Cedars near the Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf, and was deeply influenced by her father, Hans Heysen. Nora Heysen: Light and life explores a notable career spanning seven decades, during which the artist painted some of Australia's most outstanding self-portraits, became the country's first female war artist, and was the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize. Curator and author Jane Hylton has written extensively on Australian art and has curated numerous exhibitions. In 2000 she left the position of Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia to become a freelance consultant.

Hans Heysen

Hans Heysen
Author: Rebecca Andrews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Artists
ISBN: 9780730830238

This book celebrates the work of Hans Heysen and is timed to mark the fortieth anniversary of the artist's death. Enormously popular, Heysen is South Australia's best-known artist. He is also recognized across the country as one of the most influential of Australian artists, one whose work was pivotal to development of Australian art and culture in the twentieth century. In addition to his will-known landscapes, the book reappraises his lesser-known work, tracing its development from his early student days painting in Europe between 1899 and 1903. Heysen was the first artist to use eucalyptus as a persistent motif in his art, celebrating the grandeur of certain species and presenting them as symbols of heroic endurance and includes many other subject areas, such as toilers of the land, quarries, the River Murray, the South Coast and Pewsey Vale, and also portraits and still-lifes.

Heysen to Heysen

Heysen to Heysen
Author: Catherine Speck
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1743056419

The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen, one of Australia's most recognised landscape painters. Letters between the two, however, reveal a different story. In 1934, when Nora first travelled to London to study art, she experienced her first time away from home and the first of many, often exotic places from where she would write home to Hahndorf, South Australia. The correspondence between Nora and Hans continued until his death in 1968. Theirs was a close and affectionate relationship, in which father and daughter shared a lifetime of thoughts about art and life, and a mutual respect and admiration for each other's work. Heysen to Heysen is a showcase of letters between Nora and Hans Heysen from the collection of the National Library of Australia. Accompanied by carefully selected images and text by leading art historian Catherine Speck, the publication lifts the lid on a vista of Australian art.

Hans Heysen Masterpieces

Hans Heysen Masterpieces
Author: Sir Hans Heysen
Publisher: Adelaide : Rigby
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1977
Genre: Painting, Australian
ISBN: 9780727005540

This volume presents a collection of 72 paintings from German-born Australian painter, Hans Heysen (1877-1968). Heysen is best known for his watercolors of monumental Australian gum trees. Heysen also produced images of men and animals toiling in the Australian bush, as well as groundbreaking depictions of arid landscapes in the Flinders Ranges.

Nora Heysen: A Portrait

Nora Heysen: A Portrait
Author: Anne-Louise Willoughby
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925815218

Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on the Australian art scene when the nation's major art institutions restored her position after years of artistic obscurity. Extensively researched, and containing artworks and photographs from the painter's life, this is the first biography of the artist, and it has been enthusiastically embraced by the Heysen family. This authorized biography coincides with a major retrospective of the works of Nora and her father, landscape painter Hans Heysen, to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria in March 2019.

Fred Williams

Fred Williams
Author: Patrick McCaughey
Publisher: Murdoch Books (AU)
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1987
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 9780858354555

Our Country

Our Country
Author: Ron Radford
Publisher: South Australia State Government Publications
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Australia's unification from regional provinces to a federation. Filled with a sense of their time in history, Australia's great painters have been compared with America's Hudson River artists who expressed a similar awe about their surroundings and whose pictures gave its people a feeling of nationhood. Different in mood and scale from the earlier Heidelberg paintings, perhaps the best known of the Australian art movements, the sweeping Federation landscapes defined Australianness. The images contain natural components unique to the world's largest island -- giant eucalyptuses, expansive oceans and beaches, grand rivers, rugged mountain ranges -- and the luminous light of Australia which bathes the land.

People, Print & Paper

People, Print & Paper
Author: Michael Richards
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0642104514

The National Library's major public contribution to the Australian Bicentenary was the travelling exhibition, People, Print & Paper. Celebrating two hundred years of Australian books, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue bring together a collection of books which gives a fascinating insight into an aspect of Australian life and character which is often overlooked.