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 Australia
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Ivor Hele
The productive artist
Jane Hylton
Ivor Hele was an artist of extraordinary discipline and power. He was also enormously prolific and completed more commissioned works than any other artist in the history of Australian art. His front-line responses to war, sketched and painted for the Australian War Memorial, the portraits that won him the Archibald prize an astonishing five times during the 1950s, his exuberant nudes (Ivor and his wife swam nude at Maslins beach long before it was fashionable or legal to do so) and his magnificent landscapes of that rugged coastline south of Adelaide - where he lived as a recluse - combine to make up a prodigious body of work. This book focuses on the non-war art in an attempt to offer a wider view of the man, his exceptional ability and his rigorous discipline. It is released to coincide with an exhibition that celebrates his life-long dedication to his art.
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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 kvartet 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