Temporarily out of print
Ivor Hele
The productive artist
Jane Hylton
PB 80 PP 285 x 210 60 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
1862544905 $39.95 Art / Biography EAN 9781862544901
Wakefield Press
Ivor Hele was an artist of extraordinary discipline
and power. He was also enormously prolific and completed more
commissioned works than any other artist in the history of Australian
art. His front-line responses to war, sketched and painted for
the Australian War Memorial, the portraits that won him the Archibald
prize an astonishing five times during the 1950s, his exuberant
nudes (Ivor and his wife swam nude at Maslins beach long before
it was fashionable or legal to do so) and his magnificent landscapes
of that rugged coastline south of Adelaide where he
lived as a recluse combine to make up a prodigious
body of work. This book focuses on the non-war art in an attempt
to offer a wider view of the man, his exceptional ability and
his rigorous discipline. It is released to coincide with an exhibition
that celebrates his life-long dedication to his art.
Also in this series:
Hans
Heysen: Into the light
John
Dowie: A life in the round
Willliam
Dobell: Portraits in context