Artist: Sir Sidney Nolan (1917 - 1992)
Nationality: Australian
Movement: Modern Australian School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Australian born, Sydney Nolan taught himself to paint and took it up professionally in 1938. His early abstracts were soon replaced by his famous naïve paintings that depicted the adventures of Ned Kelly and explorers Burke and Wills. In 1950, Nolan traveled and studied throughout Europe, including Italy, Greece, and North Africa and then settled in London. Here, he began painting in a more mature, slightly figurative, abstract style. Nolan also worked as a set designer, book illustrator and poet. He became Sir Sidney Nolan in 1981.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Randy Magnus, Tattoo Artist: Don Nolan (Arm), 1981
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Charles Loring Elliot - William Sidney Mount c. 1850 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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W.G. Jackman, Sidney Smith, 19th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Untitled, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Untitled, 19th - 20th century
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William Sidney Mount, Captain Daniel S. Hawkins, 1850
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Jasper Francis Cropsey - Sidney Plains with the Union of the Susquehanna and Unadilla Rivers 1874 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, The Old Stella, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, One Summer Day, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney H. Riesenberg, Over the Top for You - World War I poster, circa 1917 - 1918
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Sidney H. Sime, Fate of an Agnostic, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Florence From San Miniato, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, The Riva, Venice, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Hampton Court, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Road To Toledo, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Torre de Mangia, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Malaga, Spain, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, The Dream Boat, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, The Salute Steps, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Gordin, Untitled, pl. 5 in the portfolio, 10 West Coast Artists, 1967
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, The Salute, Evening, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, Pont-tre-arches, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney H. Riesenberg, Civilians - World War I poster, circa 1917 - 1918
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Sidney Tushingham, Portrait of a Young Child, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, A Sussex Farm, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Mackenzie Litten, Regent Street, 19th - 20th century
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John Collier, G. Sidney hunt, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Playa mayer Segovia, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Looe Harbour Cornwall, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Plaza del Corrillo Salamanca, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Puerta del Puente, Cordova, 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, Two children on a beach seated next to each other., 19th - 20th century
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Sidney Tushingham, South Porch, Lincoln Cathedral, 19th - 20th century
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Charles Picart, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, 18th - 19th century
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Sidney H. Riesenberg, U.S. Marines Active Service on Land and Sea - World War I poster, circa 1914 - 1918
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Clement Pierre Marillier, Chere Sidney! Se peut-il que vous m"aimiez encore?, 18th - 19th century
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W. H. Mote, William Henry John,Son of Lieut.-Colonel John Sidney and Lady Susan North, 19th - 20th century
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Unidentified artist, Italian (Roman), 17th century Poppies in a Wine Flask Oil on canvas 65.1
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[Ceremonial House in Kanganaman Village], May 15, 1929 Sidney Nichols Shurcliff (American, 1906-1981)Depicted: Papua New
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William Sidney Mount - Antoinette Pierson 1830 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (22)
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FOUR: Rise to the Occasion: Isabel Nolan
Recent group exhibitions include 'Ireland at Venice 2005', the 51st Venice Biennale, 'Superbia 2', Cork, 2005; 'The Yugoslav Biennial for Young Artists', Serbia-Montenegro, 2004; 'Coalesce - With All Due Intent', Model Arts and Nyland Gallery, ...
Heather Marx Gallery: Timothy Nolan: Amalgumate
In his paintings and drawings, Nolan copies outdated textile patterns onto pristine fabricated surfaces of mylar and cast acrylic panels. It is this union between the readymade and the artist’s hand that occupies much of Nolan’s work, and intrigui...
Art Effect Contemporary: John Nolan: Be Inspired - A Celebration Of Colour
John Nolan was born in Dublin Ireland in 1958. Since then he has developed a very distinctive style which is instantly recognisable. John has also seen life on the other side of the fence. He was once a gallery owner. He ran a small establis...
Mercedes-Benz: Art of Colour: Works by John Nolan
Basically it is the artist, the canvas, the colour and the brush. His palette is still as vibrant as ever, using exuberant and exotic colours. He starts a painting with no definite preconceptions but simply an impulse, a subliminal thought about c...
Bank of Ireland Arts Centre: Making A Mark: An Exhibition of Paintings by John Nolan
"MAKING A MARK " refers to the physical birth of the image. Each of John's energetic paintings starts with a first brush stroke, a simple mark, which is carefully augmented and developed over time into its final form. For John, an artist is ultima...
Ivy House: John Nolan: A Celebration of Colour
A CELEBRATION OF COLOUR has preoccupied him from an early age and he continues to explore this theme for his exhibition in THE IVY HOUSE. John has had numerous solo exhibitions including shows at the Gallery Restaurant, Coventry, UK, Jones A...
City Gallery Wellington: Australian Art Series: Exhibitions Featuring Sir Sidney Nolan, Tracey Moffatt and Mikala Dwyer
Sidney Nolans Ned Kelly Series - Paintings from the National Gallery of Australia features the most enduring and instantly recognisable images ever painted of Australias famous outlaw. The series was painted when Sidney Nolan was himself an out...
Living: Colour: John Nolan
John Nolan was born in 1958, in Dublin, Ireland.His exuberant modern figurative style combines bold outlines with bright exotic colours. His interpretation of various motifs (Fish, Landscape, Flowers, Birds, Human Figure, Still Life, Trees) transm...
Westin Hotel, Dublin, The Exchange Restaurant: John Nolan: Journey Into The Abstract
The public are Familiar with his 30 foo tx 25 foot portrait of James Joyce, which covers the facade of no. 15 Ushers Island, Dublin City - The Joyce House - The portrait will remain there while the house is being restored. John is one of t...
Universty of Southern California, Department of Art History: CALL FOR PAPERS - Expanding the Visual Field: Different Histories, Histories of Difference
Please submit a 500-word abstract of a 20-minute presentation and CV to:
Symposium Committee
Department of Art History
University of Southern California
VKC 351 - MC 0047
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0293 For more informa...
Project Gallery: Communism: A Group Show
The first exhibition will include a poster and mail art project by Aleksandra Mir (New York), an installation and mural by Klaus Weber (Berlin), a large scale fabric intervention by Eva Berandes (Berlin), an amateur (workers) choir formed by Facto...
Art Ireland: Ireland's Largest Visual Arts Event of the Year
"Thanks to its variety of exhibits and democratic nature, Art Ireland is playing an important role in breaking down many of the prejudices and pretensions surrounding the visual arts scene. One of our great strengths is that with so many artists o...
Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts: Bundanon Trust Appointments
'These appointments come at an exciting time for Bundanon,' Federal Minister for the Arts, Peter McGauran said. 'After a major building program, Bundanon now has a new, award winning education centre, substantial accommodation for ...
Australian Council: AUSTRALIA COUNCIL JOINS ARTS COMMUNITY GRIEF FOR ARKLEY
Australia Council Chair, Dr Margaret Seares, who was with Mr Arkley for his exhibition launch in Venice last month, said she was deeply saddened by the loss of such an important artist and widely liked human being. It ...
National Gallery of Australia: Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001
Federation: Australian Art and Society 1901-2001 is an exhibition that confronts such questions. A mosaic of the past century, Federation looks at the entire sweep ...
National Gallery of Victoria: Peter Booth: Human / Nature
Booth was born in Sheffield, England, in November, 1940. The Booth family migrated to Australia in 1957, and settled in Altona. He worked in the steel mills alongside his father until he went to the National Gallery School in 1962 to study paintin...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Richard Artschwager: Back and Forth /Up and Down
Visual analysis, investigations into scale and perspective, space and surface, is merely held up by such expressive elements as color and style. And in principle anything can be the object of such analysis: potatoes, a belt buckle, photos culled f...
KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA): Being Here: A Group Exhibition Celebrating Place and Belonging
These are questions that have been recurring themes in contemporary work of the past ten years. Artists have reflected on and imaged Durban for many years though, particularly in early colonial times. But what have replaced those colonial images o...
University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach: By Hand: Pattern, Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing
In contrast to a recent surge of art made with the aid of technology, the drawings included in By Hand were all created with simple, hand-held tools. This exhibition brings together work that resists the ever-present temptation to generate images ...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today
Jointly planned with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in conjunction with its major international conference," Re-Imagining Ireland" (May 7-10; re-imagining-ireland.org), the exhibition wil...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art
Over the last two decades in Australia, the use of language in contemporary art has been integrated much more so than previously. Unscripted: language in contemporary art will bring together 22 works by some of Australia's most well-known co...
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea: Over One Hundred Portfolio Member Artists Participate in The Florence Biennale
We are enthused that the Biennales jury searched through the absolutearts.com Portfolios for quality work by artists around the world. As they selected nearly one hundred artists qualified and willing to participate, this is proof of our success a...

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