Margaret Olley. Far From A Still Life

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage Books/Random House
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Revised

Description: 625 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "With new chapters taking in the last few years of Margaret Olleys life, her state funeral and the enormous legacy she has left behind. A great painter, a great woman, a great story Barry Humphries Margaret Olley is arguably Australias most loved artist. She was also one of the countrys most generous benefactors to public art galleries. This intimate biography begins in the 1920s in the green, tropical wet of Tully, North Queensland, where Margarets early childhood was spent on a cane farm and dairy. The story unfolds to tell of her life-long love affair with painting. At boarding school at Somerville House, Brisbane, Margaret found a mentor in art teacher Caroline Barker, and she went on to blossom as an art student at East Sydney Technical College. The book includes intriguing revelations about her friendships with well-known figures such as Donald Friend, William Dobell and Russell Drysdale, and the success of her first one-person show in Sydney at the age of twenty-five. Bohemian adventures in Europe with fellow Australian artists, including David Strachan, were to follow. She travelled - sketchbook in hand - around England, France, Italy and Spain; met Alice B.

ISBN: 9781742755854