Arthur Boyd
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Arthur Boyd AC OBE (20 July 1920-24 April 1999) was a member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, with many relatives being painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. His sister Mary Boyd married John Perceval, and then Sidney Nolan. His wife Yvonne Boyd née Lennie, was also a painter. He is represented in all Australian state galleries.
He was born at Murrumbeena, Victoria. He attended night classes at the National Gallery Art School, in Melbourne in 1935.
He produced several series of works, including a collection of 15 biblical paintings based on the teaching of his mother, Doris Boyd née Gough. Later he produced a tempera series about large areas of sky and land, called the Wimmera series.
In the 1940s he was a member of the Angry Penguins artistic and literary group. His best-known work is perhaps his Half caste bride series in the 1950s, which he did based on his experiences of seeing Aborigines in Alice Springs in 1951. He represented Australia with Arthur Streeton at the Venice Biennale in 1958. He joined the Antipodeans Group in the Whitechapel gallery. He started another well known series of works, Nebuchadnezzar is 1966. He returned to Australia in 1971, as one of Australia's most highly regarded artists. He bought properties at Bundanon on the Shoalhaven River, and many of his ej
In 1975 he presented several thousand works to the National Gallery of Australia. In 1979, he was honoured with the Order of Australia. He represented Australia at the Venice Biennale again inuIn May 2000, his painting Dreaming Bridegroom I (1957) sold for $957,000. Another painting of the Bride series, Mourning Bride I (1958) has sold for $833,000.
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- Brenda Niall, The Boyds, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2002. (ISBN 0-522-84871-0)
- Heathcote, Christopher (1995). A Quiet Revolution: The Rise of Australian Art, 1946-1968. Melbourne, Vic: Text Publishing, 267. ISBN 1875847103.
- Smith, Bernard, with Terry Smith & Christopher Heathcote (2001). Australian Painting 1788-2000. Melbourne, Vic: Oxford University Press, 630p. ISBN 0-19-551554-5.
| Preceded by: Ian Kiernan | Australian of the Year 1995 | Succeeded by: Dr. John Yu |
