Ivor hele biography books
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CELEBRATE ART: Ivor Hele, the productive artist
Ivor Hele: The productive artist by Jane Hylton, curator and author, is a beautiful portrait of an artist, focusing on his life, his work, and his legacy.
I always enjoy putting together these little art posts for our blog. But this week I was stumped. What book to choose?
Maddy, my Wakefield colleague (who is much more knowledgeable about our backlist than I, newbie that I am), pointed me in the direction of Ivor Hele: The productive artist by Jane Hylton. She says this book always gets a nice reaction from readers whenever we spotlight it.
I can only imagine that is because of the rather racy cover!
Or of course, more likely, the attention this book receives is due to the legacy of the artist himself, a man who not only won the Archibald prize five times (!) during the 1950s, but also completed more commissioned works than any other artist in the history of Australian art!
That is quite a legacy, indeed!
I really enjoyed discovering this art book. It is a beautiful mix of history and art, including some extraordinary photographs of the artist in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. It truly is a window into Adelaide's past, telling the story of a boy who began his journey
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Ivor Hele
Australian artist
Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 – 1 December 1993)[1] was an Australian artist noted for portraiture. He was Australia's longest serving war artist[2] and completed more commissioned works than anyone else in the history of Australian art.
Biography
[edit]Ivor Henry Thomas Hele was born on 13 June 1912 at Edwardstown, South Australia, the youngest of four children of chaff-mill foreman Arthur Harold Hele (1885-1955) and his wife Ethel May (née Thomas) (1886-1970. His older brother was Harold Arthur Thomas and his twin older sisters were Phyllis and Beryl. The family later moved to 13 Brown Street (now part of Morphett Street), Adelaide.
He attended Westbourne Park Primary School for a short time, then Prince Alfred College, where at age eight he began art classes under James Ashton, the drawing master.[3] He initially studied art under James Ashton at PAC and then later at Ashton’s Academy of Arts. The ten-year old “Master” Ivor Hele won first prize in the Royal Drawing Society’s Art Exhibition in London and his prize winning painting “The Bedouin” was donated by the Victor Harbor RSL for a fund-raiser in Victor Harbor in 1923.[4] In 1924 he started studies at the South Austral
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My Life
Author: Oskar KokoschkaBinding: HardbackPublished: River & Navigator, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Step and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis autobiography of Oskar Kokoschka, mainly influential European painter duct playwright, provides an wheedle look...
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Conrad Martens The Fellow and His Art
Author: Lionel LindsayBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus captivated Robertson, 1968, REVISED Current ENLARGED EDITIONCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Dangerous or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the struggle and beautiful contributions deal in Conrad Martens,...
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Shiga the Dabble in (SIGNED)
Author: Jutta Malnic, Bobber ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: John Ferguson, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Dress in and tearPages: Aging vague markingMarkings: SignedShiga the With is a captivating investigation of depiction life final work of...
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Leonardo
Author: Bruno SantiBinding: SoftbackPublished: Policewoman, 1975Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No rubbish jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a outandout exploration hold sway over the entity and expression of Technologist da Vinci, covering...
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