Arthur Boyd
Australian painter (1920-1999) · Australia · On the map · Artists · Died at 78
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both.
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Boyd (right) in his studio in 1943 with his sister Mary and John Perceval
Olympic Pylon (1956)
A tapestry which is a greatly enlarged version of Boyd's original painting. It is one of the world's largest tapestries and hangs in the Great Hall of the Australian Parliament House.
Boyd's grave at Brighton General CemeteryAwards
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Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion (1947-48), now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.
