biography
pronunciation:
[grooner]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1939)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Gisborne, New Zealand. Having arrived in Sydney as an infant, he was accepted by Julian Ashton as a pupil in 1894, and later became an assistant at Ashton's Sydney Art School. He won his first Wynne prize, for landscape painting, in 1916, and was to win six more in the next 20 years. Although sometimes criticized for a primness and lack of vitality, his best work captures the special quality of the Australian light, and he is regarded as one of Australia's leading landscape artists. |
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