Sea Creatures
Peter Campbell, 23 July 1987
Sidney Nolan: Such is life
by Brian Adams.
Hutchinson, 275 pp., £16.95, June 1987,0 09 168430 7 Show More
by Brian Adams.
Hutchinson, 275 pp., £16.95, June 1987,
Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures
by John Wilmerding.
Viking, 208 pp., £25, September 1987,9780670817665 Show More
by John Wilmerding.
Viking, 208 pp., £25, September 1987,
Faces 1966-1984
by David Hockney and Marco Livingstone.
Thames and Hudson, 96 pp., £8.95, June 1987,0 500 27464 9 Show More
by David Hockney and Marco Livingstone.
Thames and Hudson, 96 pp., £8.95, June 1987,
“... Sidney Nolan was born in Melbourne in 1916. His father was on the trams, but did rather better at illegal bookmaking. They were Irish, working-class, lapsed Catholics. Sidney left school at 14 and spent his late teens in irregular employment and part-time art education. He could not draw well enough for Mr Leyshon-White’s commercial art agency, so he ran the correspondence course ... ”
