Showing posts with label Donald Friend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Friend. Show all posts
Friday, August 6, 2021

Australia Day, Part 2 - Art by Donald Friend

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Part two of our Australian double feature consists of art work by Donald Stuart Leslie Friend  (1915-1989) an artist whose reputation suffer...
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Trio

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All the information that came with this piece was the artist's name, Donald Friend.  

Bali 1972

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This is one of the later pieces in my Friend collection, being from Bali, Indonesia in 1972.  Friend spent quite a bit of time in the East I...

Florence, 1952

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I enlarged the lower right of this Friend drawing and learned that is was done  in Florence (Firenze) in 1952.  I have a few other works don...
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1950

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The only information I have on this Donald Friend piece is the year, 1950.  
Friday, April 24, 2020

Australia Day, Part 2 - Art by Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

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Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (1915-1989) was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life outside his native land.  Sti...

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Although we might hope for clearer detail, the artistic impact of "Borneo Showers, 1945" is there. This was done during Fr...

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"Three Shy Nudes - Bali" is a 1970's work by Donald Friend.  His biographers mention that he had to leave Bali because ...

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This undated Friend work is "Stuart Holmes with an Indian Gun."

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This 1945 Friend drawing is most likely from his work as a war artist for the Australian Imperial Forces.  The pose of the man at r...