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