Bertram Mackennal is highly regarded today as one of Australia’s most successful modern sculptors. A key exponent of the ‘New Sculpture’ movement that transformed English sculpture in the late 19^th century, his versatile output shows that he was equally at home working on intimate

Bertram Mackennal, arguably one of Australia’s most successful artists of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, found great success living and working in Britain and Europe. At the time, his success outshone his Australian creative contemporaries such as Tom Roberts (1856-1931) and

A distinguished member of a distinguished family, Theodore Penleigh Boyd’s life was characterised by a wholehearted commitment to art. He belongs to the same dynasty of prodigiously creative Boyds that include both his parents Arthur Merric (1862-1940) and Emma Minnie Boyd (1858-1936), his b

Margaret Olley was a widely loved figure who balanced a highly regarded artistic career spanning more than six decades with an active role as a generous and tireless benefactor. She was also able to garner public affection in a way that extended well beyond the confines of the artistic commu

In 1980 the Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney exhibited twenty-three Kelly paintings which were executed by Sidney Nolan in 1979 for an exhibition that was to coincide with the centenary of Ned Kelly’s death in 1880. The series, of which the present work formed a part, was painted at ‘Ruthland’,