Arthur Boyd Retrospective

High quality colour plates. With contributions by Hendrik Kolenberg, Deborah Edwards, Grazia Gunn. Exhibition research by Patricia R. McDonald. Catalogue of a travelling exhibition December 1993 – November 1994.

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd, AC, OBE (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was one of the leading Australian painters of the late 20th century. A member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, his relatives included painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals. His sister Mary Boyd married John Perceval, and then Sidney Nolan, both artists. His wife Yvonne Boyd née Lennie, and son Jamie and daughters Polly and Lucy are also painters.

Boyd’s work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion” (1947-48)