|
Summer At Carcoar
''Summer at Carcoar'' is a 1977 painting by Australian artist Brett Whiteley. The painting was awarded the Wynne Prize in 1978, the same year that Whiteley also won the Archibald Prize with '' Art, Life and the other thing'' and the Sulman Prize with '' Yellow nude'' - the only artist to be awarded all three prizes in the one year. The painting depicts the landscape around the town of Carcoar, in the Central West of New South Wales. The work was commissioned by businessman and philanthropist William Bowmore and gifted by him to the Newcastle Art Gallery in 1977. It remains part of its collection and has been described as the institution's "major icon work". The painting was referenced in the 2019 opera ''Whiteley Whiteley is a community in the county of Hampshire, England, near Fareham. The development straddles the boundary between two council districts: the Borough of Fareham to the south and east, and the city of Winchester to the north and west. L ...'', based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Whiteley
Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, England, Fiji and the United States. Early years Growing up in , a suburb of Sydney, Whiteley was educated at Scots School, Bathurst and Scots College, Bellevue Hill. He started drawing at a very early age. While he was a teenager, he painted on weekends in the Central West of New South Wales and Canberra with such works as ''The soup kitchen'' (1958). Throughout 1956 to 1959 at the National Art School in East Sydney, Whiteley attended drawing classes. In 1959 he won an art scholarship sponsored by the Italian government and judged by Russell Drysdale. He left Australia for Europe on 23 January 1960. London After meeting Bryan Robertson, the director of the Whitechapel Gallery, Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
