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52. ARTHUR BOYD 

During Arthur Boyd’s prolific career he moved through a number of themes and aesthetic approaches, proving himself a true artistic polymath. Within the context of his multifarious creative output, the Australian bush was a subject that the artist frequently returned to.

Having spen

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54. EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE 

Following her 1992 Australian Artists Creative Fellowship win – the first for an Indigenous artist – Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s painting was filled anew with exploration, vigour and depth.

1993 is generally regarded as Kngwarreye’s greatest colourist phase, the period in which her wor

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55. CLIFFORD POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI 

This masterful painting is associated with the secret/sacred Malierra (initiation) Ceremony that takes place at the men’s business camp at Larunba (Napperby).

In this ceremony, Tjungurrayi and Tjapaltjarri youths are led through ritual song, dance, ground designs, body art and secr

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56. ROVER THOMAS (JULAMA)

Born in the Warburton Ranges south of the Great Sandy Desert, Rover Thomas was taken from Balgo Hills as a 12 year old boy and spent the next 40 years working as a stockman throughout the Kimberley and north-west gaining an intimate knowledge of the country. He began his career as an artist

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57. TURKEY TOLSON TJUPURRULA 

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula was born at Yalyalpi, about 8 kilometres east of Haasts Bluff in the Northern Territory. Prior to his birth his family had moved between their country in the Walungurru region and the Hermannsburg Mission. They finally settled in Haasts Bluff where, by observing the

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6. NORMAN LINDSAY

The act that the figure of Rita looms large in the oeuvre of Norman Lindsay is no small endorsement, given that the artist worked with approximately 130 models during his highly productive period of the 1930s and 1940s.1

Writing to his biographer, Norman Hetherington, Li

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26. LLOYD REES

The extraordinary exhibition of drawings at the Museum of Sydney1 earlier this year was a wonderful reminder of Lloyd Rees’ exquisite skill as an artist. These precise lapidary views done in the early 1930s stand in contrast to the work from his final years, more than five decades

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27. ARTHUR STREETON

The Festa belongs to a large suite of about 80 oil paintings, drawings and watercolours created between 1908 and 1909, when Arthur Streeton was in Venice on his honeymoon. The paintings he produced at this time are among his finest and most seductively beautiful works, later becomin

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