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Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (1915 - 1989) was active/lived in Australia, England.  Donald Friend is known for Fantasy scene painting, homo-erotic images.

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1914 – 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist. Born in Sydney, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother and showed early talent both as an artist and a writer. He studied with Sydney Long (1931) and Dattilo Rubbo (1934–1935), and later in London (1936–1937) at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky.

During World War II, he served as a gunner with the AIF, and while stationed at Albury began a friendship with Russell Drysdale, which led to their joint discovery of Hill End, a quasi-abandoned gold mining village near Bathurst, New South Wales, which in the 1950s became something of an artists' colony. He also served as an official war artist in Labuan and Balikpapan in 1945. After the war he lived for a time in the Sydney mansion-boarding house Merioola, exhibiting with the Merioola Group.

Much of Friend's life and career was spent outside Australia, in places as diverse   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3653 characters.]  Artist bio

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