Russell Drysdale with some canvases, taken by Australian photographer Max Dupain
Born
(1912-02-07)7 February 1912
Bognor Regis, England
Died
29 June 1981(1981-06-29) (aged 69)
Sydney, Australia
Nationality
Australian
Known for
Painter
Notable work
Moody's pub (1941) The Drover's Wife (1945) Sofala (1947) The cricketers (1948) West Wyalong (1949)
Awards
Wynne Prize 1947 (Sofala)
Sir George Russell DrysdaleAC (7 February 1912 – 29 June 1981), also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for Sofala in 1947,[1][2] and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1954. He was influenced by abstract and surrealist art, and "created a new vision of the Australian scene as revolutionary and influential as that of Tom Roberts".[3]
^Short, John Rennie (2005). Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society. Syracuse University Press. p. 211. ISBN 0-8156-2954-0.
^Drysdale, Russell (1947). "Sofala". AGNSW collection record. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
^Osborne, Harold, ed. (1970) Oxford Companion to Art, Oxford, Oxford University Press
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