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Aug 11, 2018 · Explore the iconic paintings of the 19th-century bushranger Ned Kelly by Australian artist Sidney Nolan. Learn about the historical, literary and artistic influences behind this series and its touring exhibition.
Focused on his creative output, Nolan lived at Heide for many years and it was here he painted the first of his famous Ned Kelly paintings in 1946, which would become a series of 27 works. Ned Kelly-Ned Kelly Series (1946) by Sidney NOLAN National Gallery of Australia. Ned Kelly by Sidney Nolan (From the collection of National Gallery of Australia)
This is the 19th-Century outlaw Ned Kelly as imagined by the Australian painter Sidney Nolan. One of the most famous images in the history of Australian art, the painting belongs to a series of 27 ...
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM AC CBE RA (22 April 1917 – 28 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously Ned Kelly ...
Canberra City, Australia. Ned Kelly is one of the earliest of Nolan's Kelly paintings, created the same year that the artist first travelled to Kelly country in north-east Victoria. It depicts the solitary figure of Ned Kelly, in his home-made armour against a sparse landscape, its horizon interrupted by a densely-wooded hill with a small cabin ...
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Nov 28, 1992 · Sidney Nolan was a modernist artist who depicted the history and mythology of bush life in Australia, including the Kelly Gang. His paintings of Ned Kelly, such as First class marksman 1946, are iconic and influential for Australian identity.