Joy hester art for sale
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Joy Hester facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Joy Hester | |
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| Born | Joy St Clair Hester (1920-08-21)21 August 1920 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 4 December 1960(1960-12-04) (aged 40) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Painting and drawing |
| Movement | Angry Penguins |
| Spouse(s) | Albert Tucker (1941–1947) Gray Smith (1959–) |
Joy St Clair Hester (21 August 1920 – 4 December 1960) was an Australian artist. She was a member of the Angry Penguins movement and the Heide Circle who played an integral role in the development of Australian Modernism. Hester is best known for her bold and expressive ink drawings. Her work was charged with a heightened awareness of mortality due to the death of her father during her childhood, the threat of war, and her personal experience with Hodgkin's disease. Hester is most well known for the series Face, Sleep, and Love (1948–49) as well as the later works, The Lovers (1956–58).
Biography
Early life
Hester was born on the 21 August 1920 and raised in Elwood to middle-
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The work of Joy Hester offers deeply personal insights into the complexities of love, identity and loss. She began her training in 1936 in a commercial art programme at Brighton Technical School. She went on to study drawing at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne from 1937 to 1938, enrolling both in painting and design. At the same time she attended life drawing classes at the Victorian Artists Society in East Melbourne.
She met art patrons Sunday and John Reed in 1939, regularly spending time at Heide, their home in Bulleen. In the early 1940s J. Hester and her first husband Albert Tucker (1914-1999) joined the Heide Circle, working alongside notable artists including Sidney Nolan (1917-1992), Danila Vassilieff (1897-1958), Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) and John Perceval (1923-2000). J. Hester made prolific contributions to the Angry Penguins journal, which operated as an extension of the Heide Circle, and revolutionised new understandings of Australian modernism through art and literature.
Central to J. Hester’s drawings was an interest in the realm of huma
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painter, was born in Elsternwick, Victoria. She attended St Michael’s Church of England Girls’ Grammar School in 1933-35 before commencing one year of a commercial art course at Brighton Technical School. She started in the Drawing School of the National Gallery School in 1937 and completed one and a half years, leaving in mid-1938 despite winning a prize for drawing the head from life at the annual students’ exhibition. In 1937 she met the painter Albert Tucker whom she was to marry in 1941; in 1945 they had a son, Sweeney.
During the period 1937-42 she met and became friendly with several artists who are now recognised as the most significant of their generation: Sidney Nolan, Danila Vassilieff, Josl Bergner , Noel Counihan , Arthur Boyd and John Perceval . She was also associated with John Reid and his wife, Sunday, whose home at Heidelberg, Heide, became a centre for many of these artists (c.1940-47).
In 1947 Joy Hester was diagnosed as having Hodgkins’s disease, a malignant cancer of the lymph glands. She moved to Sydney with Gray Smith, le
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