- National Gallery of Victoria Art School
Arthur Boyd developed a deeply personal figurative painting practice around biblical stories, war, landscape and race. His Bride series used the image of an Aboriginal man and white bride to address racism and social exclusion, while later Shoalhaven landscapes became central to his mature work.
Painting; ceramics; printmaking
Major Works
- 1959The Bridegroom Drinking from a Creek
- 1958–60The Bride series
- 1966–69Nebuchadnezzar series
- 1947–48The Expulsion
- 1946The Prodigal Son
- 1970s–90sShoalhaven River paintings
- 1958Half-Caste Bride
- 1946Mining Town
- 1958The Frightened Bridegroom
- 1950sLandscape with Grooms
Interviews & Writing
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