Illustrated letter of Sidney Nolan to John Russell, written from Antarctica, 1964 Jan. 28 [manuscript]. [1964]

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Illustrated letter of Sidney Nolan to John Russell, written from Antarctica, 1964 Jan. 28 [manuscript]. [1964]

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MS Acc10.150 comprises the one-page illustrated letter written by Sidney Nolan to British art critic John Russell from Antarctica, dated 28 January 1964. Two-thirds of the page is taken up by a watercolour and wax-resist landscape sketch; the remaining space is given to a short note to Russell indicating Nolan's wonder at the grandeur of the Antarctic.

1 item (25.0 x 20.0 cm.)

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Russell, John, 1919-2008

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Art critic and historian. From the description of John Russell papers, ca. 1941-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967855 ...

Nolan, Sidney, 1917-1992

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Sir Sidney Robert Nolan, painter, illustrator, printmaker and set designer, was born in Melbourne in 1917. During the 1940s, he was part of the circle of artists that art patrons John and Sunday Reed collected around them at their home, Heide, in Victoria. He was also associated with the Angry Penguins, an artistic and literary avant-garde group. He is perhaps best known for his mythologising of the story of Ned Kelly in a series of paintings created during the 1940s, now in the collection of th...