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John Henry Olsen

John Henry Olsen (1928 - 2023) was active/lived in Australia.  John Olsen is known for Abstract landscape painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, objects.

"John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95," Obituary, The New York Times, by Yan Zhuang, May 5, 2023.

The last surviving member of a generation that defined his country’s modern art, he painted exuberant landscapes that changed the way Australia saw its environment.

John Olsen, an artist who helped shepherd in Australia's postwar modern art movement and whose exuberant, vivid and abstract depictions of the Australian landscape redefined the way the country saw its natural environment, died on April 14 at his home in Bowral, New South Wales. He was 95.

His death was announced by his children, Tim and Louise Olsen, in a statement. Tim Olsen is also his father’s gallerist.

A landscape painter who in his youth rebelled against the cultural establishment, Mr. Olsen was among the generation of artists who first defined Australian modern art. As the last surviving member of that generation, he was often called the country’s greatest li   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7737 characters.]  Artist bio

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