- Roy Dalgarno
Roy Dalgarno is a social realist
artist , born inMelbourne ,Victoria (Australia) in 1910, died February 2001 inAuckland ,New Zealand .Education and Training
* Secondary education at
Ballarat Grammar School.
* 1926 to 1930 Attended National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, where he met social realistsNoel Counihan andHerbert McClintock .
* 1930 to 1932 attended Academy of Art under Dattilo Rubbo.
* 1932 to 1934 attended East Sydney Technical College Painting & Drawing.
* 1951 to 1953 atEcole des Beaux Arts inParis , including in 1951–52 William Hayter’sAtelier 17 (etching)
* 1980 Pratt Graphic Centre, New York. Etching and collography.Career
He joined the
Communist Party of Australia in the 1930s but, according to art historian Bernard Smith, his bohemian temperament was incompatible with party puritanism. He left the party in 1949. In the late 1930s he travelled to the canefields of NorthQueensland , where he concentrated on his painting.He co-founded the
Studio of Realist Art (SORA)Sydney in 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as lecturer at the East Sydney Technical College. After studying in Paris, he moved to India, where he co-founded "Editions Anarkali", publisher of fine arts inBombay , while being employed as a visiting lecturer in lithography at the School of Fine Arts.In 1953 he won the First Prize for Diploma Students, lithography, at the
Ecole des Beaux Arts , Paris. In 1965 he won first prize at the Mahasartra State (India ) exhibition.In 1975 he moved to
Auckland ,New Zealand , where he worked as a Lecturer in drawing and composition at the Auckland Society of Arts.Described as a
socialist bohemian and a social realist painter, his work commissioned by the Australian maritime and mining trade unions is perhaps the best remembered, for its depiction of Australian workers and working conditions.The art historian Bernard Smith wrote of Dalgarno: “He belongs to that great generation of social realist Australian artists who flourished during World War II and early post-war years but – in the aftermath of the Cold War – are now largely stored and forgotten by curators.” ('Artist of the Everyday' "The Australian",
23 February 2001 )External links
* [http://workers.labor.net.au/101/d_review_delgarno.html Roy Dalgarno — Tribute to an Artist]
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