Ivor Hele: The Soldiers' Artist (1984) By Gavin Fry
 
Hele was the first official war artist appointed for World War II and has won the Archibald prize for portraiture.
 
Ivor Hele was the first official war artist appointed in the 1939-45 war, serving through to the end of the conflict in such diverse battle theatres as North Africa and New Guinea, as well as on the Australian mainland. His success in this appointment led to a further commission in the Korean War with the rank of major, the equal highest rank held by any Australian war artist. As well as being Australia's longest-serving war artist, Hele has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture five times and is a most accomplished figure and landscape painter. His portraits cover the spectrum from the great and powerful of our time to the nameless diggers who fought and suffered for their country in the 1939-45 and Korean wars.
 
Hele's war work is the pinnacle of his achievement and carries on the great tradition of George Lambert, who set the standard for Australian war art during the 1914-18 war.
 
In this book, Gavin Fry relates Hele's experiences as a war artist and discusses his war work in depth. Hele's post-war commissioned paintings are also studied, and his war work is placed in the context of his career as a whole.
 
Signed By The Author
 
Hard Cover With Dust Jacket
112 pages
In Good Condition