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BRIAN DUNLOP           Australia    1938 - 2009

Brian Dunlop was born in Sydney in 1940 and immigrated to Australia during the Depression. His father was "a bit of a Calvinist" but his stern approval extended to encouraging his son to break from his working-class origins and try a career in art. Dunlop was awarded a scholarship to the National Art School and through this he came to appreciate the Renaissance-inspired devotion to drawing on a human scale. Dunlop's sensitive draughtsmanship led to early success. He was awarded the Le Gay Brereton Prize for drawing in 1958, and in 1962 had a drawing purchased by the Art Gallery of NSW. He travelled to Italy where he found the Renaissance art that nourished him. He developed is a more meditative quality, as though, after the sunshine of southern Europe, he had been touched by the north's cool light. In 1980 he became artist in residence at the University of Melbourne. The following year he was awarded the Sulman Prize for genre painting.

 

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