Donald Friend, 1915-1989: Retrospective

SUPERIOR COPY. Includes contributions from Lou Klepac, Russell Drysdale and Donald Friend; Hendrik Kolenberg, Prints; Amanda Beresford, Manuscripts; and John Thompson, Published books, and with Barry Pearce’s Introduction and essay Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture. Second edition pp. 160 Illusts colour & b/w, biographical notes #0118/0620/1220 ISBN 10: 0730569322 ISBN 13: 9780730569329

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 – 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life overseas. He has been the subject of controversy since the posthumous publication of diaries in which he wrote of sexual relationships with boys.

Friend’s critical reputation in the 1940s equalled those of William Dobell and Russell Drysdale