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Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen (1911 - 2003) was active/lived in Australia.  Nora Heysen is known for Portrait, floral and fruit still-life painting, war artist.

Nora Heysen was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize* in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.

Heysen was born in Hahndorf, the fourth child of South Australian landscape painter Sir Hans Heysen. She was raised at The Cedars in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. She studied art from 1926 to 1930, at the School of Fine Arts in Adelaide, under F. Millward Grey and sold paintings to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1930. From 1930 to 1933, she continued to study two days a week at the School, and worked in her own studio the rest of the time. In 1931 she visited Sydney with her parents, and spent two weeks studying at the Julian Ashton School.

Her first solo exhibition was held in Sydney in 1933. In 1934 she travelled to London with her family, remaining in Europe, after they returned home, until 1937 studying and painting. When she returned to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3003 characters.]  Artist bio

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