Nora Heysen |
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| Title : | Nora Heysen |
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| Creator : | Klepac, Lou, 1936- | ||
| Source : | Nora Heysen, p. 14, 58 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Sydney | ||
| Publisher : | Beagle Press | ||
| Date of creation : | 1989 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Heysen, Nora, 1911-2003 | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Copyright : | This item is reproduced courtesy of Lou Klepac and Nora Heysen. It may be printed or saved for personal research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Lou Klepac, the estate of Nora Heysen and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form. |
| Description : |
Extract from Nora Heysen by Lou Klepac, published by Beagle Press in 1989. The extract briefly describes Heysen's experiences as a war artist in New Guinea, and shows her painting titled 'Minnie Goldstein working in the Blood Bank, Alexishafen, 1944'. In October 1943, Heysen was appointed the first woman official war artist. Initially employed to paint studio portraits of women officers, she later travelled to New Guinea and painted many of the nurses serving there. She was interested in portraying the lighter side of war, and this drew some criticism from the director of the Australian War Art Scheme. |
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| Related names : | Heysen, Nora New Guinea |
| Period : | 1939-1945 |
| Further reading : | Bevan, Scott. Battle lines: Australian artists at war, Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, 2004 Churcher, Betty. The art of war, Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2004 Cochrane, Peter. Australians at War, Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001 Heysen, Nora. Exhibition of paintings & drawings by Nora Heysen, [Adelaide: s.n.], 1933 (Adelaide: Collotype Co.) Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war: a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press, 2002 Oppenheimer, Melanie. Australian women and war, Canberra : Dept. of Veterans' Affairs, 2008 Rutherford, Anna and James Wieland (eds.) War : Australia's creative response, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1997 Speck, Catherine. Painting ghosts: Australian women artists in wartime, St Leonards, NSW: Craftsman House, 2003 |
| Internet links : | Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: World War 2 Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: Second World War 1939-1945 Australian War Memorial: About us: Artist profiles: Nora Heysen (1911-2003) National Library of Australia: Exhibitions: Nora Heysen: The war 1943-1946 SA People See: Nora Heysen [SA Memory - State Library of South Australia] |
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