L. Scott Pendlebury or Laurence Scott Pendlebury (21 April 1914 – May 1986) was an Australian landscape and portrait artist and teacher. He married fellow artist Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude (8 December 1915 – 24 January 2002) in January 1943 and they were the parents of Anne Lorraine Pendlebury (born 21 August 1946), a stage, film and TV actress; and Andrew Scott Pendlebury (born 1952) a guitarist-songwriter. Pendlebury won the

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four times for his landscape paintings with ''The Chicory Kiln, Phillip Island'' (1956), ''Constitution Dock, Hobart'' (1957), ''Old Farmhouse'' (1960, shared with

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's ''Dairy Farm, Victoria'') and ''Road to Whistlewood'' (1968). He was a finalist in the

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twenty-four times, including ''Nornie Gude (Artist)'' (1944) and ''Anne and Drew Pendlebury (actress and musician respectively)'' (1979). His work was presented in the state galleries of

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. Pendlebury worked at Swinburne Technical College as an instructor from 1946 to 1963 and then as head of the art school until his retirement in 1974. He died in May 1986, aged 72.

Biography

Laurence Scott Pendlebury was born on 21 April 1914 in Melbourne. His father was Thomas Pendlebury (1873 – 20 October 1945), who worked at the Government Printing Office, and his mother was Jessie (died 25 January 1935); his older siblings were Thelma, Kath, Lyla/Leila and Thomas junior. Pendlebury attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1932 to 1938. While there, in 1936, he met fellow artist, Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude (8 December 1915 – 24 January 2002), daughter of Ballarat-based music teacher and orchestra conductor, Walter Gude. On 28 January 1943 Pendlebury and Gude married. Nornie Gude and L

During World War II, on 26 April 1945, Pendlebury enlisted in the

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and was discharged as a Sergeant on 21 December that year. Pendlebury and Gude's children are Anne Lorraine Pendlebury (born 21 August 1946), who became a stage, film and TV actress; and Andrew Scott Pendlebury (born 1952) a guitarist-songwriter. In May 1953 Pendlebury won the Dunlop Art Contest, with a first prize of

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300, ahead of

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, for his oil painting, ''Late Afternoon – Rhyll''. It was Pendlebury's fourth award in the competition, he finished third in 1952, fourth in 1951, and fourth previously in 1950 – the competition's inaugural year. The contest was sponsored by the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australia (later became

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) and aimed to "foster contemporary Australian art on aesthetic merits alone". One of the 1953 judges,

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, reported in '' The Argus'', that Pendlebury's work was a "sober, well-considered landscape" and it won against about 900 entries from throughout Australia. When exhibited in Adelaide, '' The Advertiser''s Elizabeth Young preferred the watercolour entrants and felt ''Late Afternoon – Rhyll'' "completely lacks subtlety and with a slick harshness apes to a certain extent the contemporary approach, while having nothing of its essential spirit". Pendlebury has won the

for a landscape painting, four times: ''The chicory kiln, Phillip Island'' (1956), ''Constitution Dock, Hobart'' (1957), ''Old farmhouse'' (1960, tied with

's ''Dairy Farm, Victoria''), and ''Road to Whistlewood'' (1968). He qualified as a finalist, twenty-four times, in the

by painting portraits of notable Australians, including related subjects: ''Nornie Gude (Artist)'' (1944), ''Walter Gude'' (1945), ''Nornie Gude'' (1949), ''Self Portrait'' (1951), ''Nornie Gude'' (1959), ''Anne as "Irena" in the Three Sisters'' (1968), ''Nornie Gude'' (1978), and ''Anne and Drew Pendlebury (actress and musician respectively)'' (1979). His art work was presented in the state galleries of

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and

. Pendlebury worked at Swinburne Technical College as an instructor from 1946 to 1963 and then as head of the art school until his retirement in 1974. L. Scott Pendlebury died in May 1986, aged 72.

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* Photo of L. Scott Pendlebury and Nornie Gude viewing Pendlebury's ''Late Afternoon – Rhyll'', winner of the 1953 Dunlop Art Contest. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pendlebury, L Scott 1914 births 1986 deaths Artists from Melbourne Academic staff of Swinburne University of Technology Wynne Prize winners Australian Army personnel of World War II Australian Army soldiers Military personnel from Melbourne 20th-century Australian painters Australian modern painters