20th-century Australian painters

The list 20th-century Australian painters includes Brett Whiteley, Howard Arkley, Stella Bowen, Norman Lindsay and Nigel Thomson. The list consists of 495 members and 1 sublist.

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Rolf Harris

Australian, Musician

Overview: Rolf Harris (30 March 1930 – 23 May 2023) was an Australian entertainer whose career encompassed work as a musician, singer-songwriter, composer, comedian, actor, painter and television personality. He ...

Date of birth: 30 March 1930

Date of death: 23 May 2023

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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20th-century Australian folk musicians 13T

Deaths from throat cancer in England 21T

Comedians from Perth, Western Australia 13T
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Jeffrey Smart

Australian artist known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes

Overview: Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart AO (26 July 1921 – 20 June 2013) was an expatriate Australian painter known for his precisionist depictions of urban landscapes that are "full of private jokes and playful allusions" ...

Date of birth: 26 July 1921

Date of death: 21 June 2013

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Disease-related deaths in Tuscany 6T

LGBT artists from Australia 19T

2013 deaths 9,323T
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Mirka Mora

Australian artist (1928–2018)

Overview: Mirka Madeleine Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Her ...

Date of birth: 18 March 1928

Date of death: 27 August 2018

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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2018 deaths 9,212T

20th-century French women artists 232T

Mora family 4T
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Norman Lindsay

Australian artist

Overview: Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer. One of the most prolific and ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1879

Date of death: 21 November 1969

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Australian propagandists 3T

20th-century Australian male writers 334T

People from Creswick, Victoria 25T
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Brett Whiteley

Australian artist

Overview: Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1939

Date of death: 15 June 1992

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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People educated at Scots College (Sydney) 62T

Julian Ashton Art School alumni 60T

Chatswood, New South Wales 17T
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Vali Myers

Australian artist, dancer, bohemian and muse

Overview: Vali Myers (2 August 1930 – 12 February 2003) was an Australian visionary artist, dancer, bohemian and muse whose coverage by the media was mostly in the decades of the 1950s and 1960s in Europe and the ...

Date of birth: 2 August 1930

Date of death: 12 February 2003

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women artists 301T

20th-century women artists 4,649T

Australian women painters 201T
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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala

Australian artist

Overview: Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (circa 1936 – 1 September 2002) was an Australian contemporary artist. He was born incountry, in the Limmen Bight area of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. His first language was ...

Date of birth: 1936

Date of death: 1 September 2002

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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Australian Aboriginal artists 189T

Year of birth uncertain 4,715T

2002 deaths 6,703T
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Nene Gare

author of 'The Fringe Dwellers'

Overview: Nene Gare (9 May 1919 – 29 May 1994) was an Australian writer and artist, best known as the author of the novel The Fringe Dwellers (1961), which was made into the 1986 Australian film of the same ...

Date of birth: 9 May 1919

Date of death: 29 May 1994

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian short story writers 137T

20th-century Australian women writers 366T

Australian women short story writers 94T
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John Mather (artist)

Australian artist

Overview: John Mather (1848 – 18 February 1916) was a Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher.

Date of birth: 1848

Date of death: 1916

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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19th-century Australian painters 114T

19th-century painters 965T

Australian people of Scottish descent 594T
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Nancy Petyarre

Aboriginal Australian artist (died 2009)

Overview: Nancy Kunoth Petyarre (between 1934 and 1939 – August 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist who lived in Utopia, 170 miles north east of Alice Springs. The second eldest of the famous and prolific ...

Date of birth: 1934

Date of death: August 2009

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

21st-century Australian painters 51T
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Howard Arkley

Australian artist

Overview: Howard Arkley (5 May 1951 – 22 July 1999) was an Australian artist, born in Melbourne, known for his airbrushed paintings of houses, architecture and suburbia. His parents were Australian, and had British ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1951

Date of death: 22 July 1999

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Australian people of Jewish descent 72T

Australian contemporary artists 85T

Artists from Melbourne 178T
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Florence Broadhurst

Australian artist

Overview: Florence Maud Broadhurst (28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977) was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New ...

Date of birth: 28 July 1899

Date of death: 15 October 1977

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women artists 301T

1977 murders in Oceania 5T

1970s murders in Australia 14T
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James Ashton

Australian artist

Overview: James Ashton (4 April 1859 – 2 August 1935) was an artist and arts educator in South Australia.

Date of birth: 4 April 1859

Date of death: 2 August 1935

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

19th-century Australian painters 114T

English migrants to colonial Australia 353T
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Ian Fairweather

Australian artist

Overview: Ian Fairweather (29 September 1891 – 20 May 1974) was a Scottish painter resident in Australia for much of his life. He combined western and Asian influences in his work.

Date of birth: 29 September 1891

Date of death: 20 May 1974

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Royal Academy of Art, The Hague alumni 66T

British World War I prisoners of war 129T

20th-century Scottish painters 287T
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Stella Bowen

artist and writer

Overview: Esther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen (1893–1947) was an Australian artist and writer.

Date of birth: 16 May 1893

Date of death: 30 October 1947

Age: 54 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Alumni of the Westminster School of Art 64T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
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Judy Cassab

Australian painter

Overview: Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter.

Date of birth: 15 August 1920

Date of death: 3 November 2015

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Artists from Sydney 76T
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Rosaleen Norton

Australian artist (1917–1979)

Overview: Rosaleen Miriam "Roie" Norton (2 October 1917 – 5 December 1979), who used the craft name of Thorn, was an Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic / N ...

Date of birth: 2 October 1917

Date of death: 5 December 1979

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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LGBT artists from Australia 19T

Australian occultists 2T

LGBT Wiccans 15T
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Tom Roberts

Australian artist

Overview: Thomas William "Tom" Roberts (8 March 1856 – 14 September 1931) was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism ...

Date of birth: 9 March 1856

Date of death: 14 September 1931

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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English male painters 2,044T

19th-century Australian painters 114T

Heidelberg School 26T
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Arthur Streeton

Australian artist

Overview: Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter and leading member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism.

Date of birth: 8 April 1867

Date of death: 1 September 1943

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Members of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters 22T

Paintings by Arthur Streeton 5T

19th-century Australian painters 114T
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Agnes Goodsir

Australian portrait artist

Overview: Agnes Noyes Goodsir (18 June 1864 – 11 August 1939) was an Australian portrait painter who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.

Date of birth: 18 June 1864

Date of death: 11 August 1939

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Académie Delécluse alumni 31T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

19th-century Australian women artists 45T