Heysen to Heysen : selected letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen / edited and introduced by Catherine Speck. Selected letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen

Collection type	Library
Author	Heysen, Hans Sir, 1877-1968.; Heysen, Nora, 1911-2003.; Speck, Catherine.; National Library of Australia;
Call Number	759.994 H621
Document type	Monograph
Year	2011.
Pagination	[viii], 351 p., [32] p. of plates : col. ill., ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher	National Library of Australia,
Note	Also includes chronology. Includes bibliographical references and index. Heysen to Heysen is a showcase of letters between Nora and Hans Heysen from the collection of the National Library of Australia. Accompanied by carefully selected images and text by leading art historian Catherine Speck, the publication lifts the lid on a vista of Australian art. In 1934, when Nora first travelled to London to study art, she experienced her first time away from home and the first of many, often exotic places from where she would write home to Hahndorf, South Australia.
Place made	Canberra :

Abstract

Cosmopolitan London, 1934-1937.--Sydney and the Archibald Prize, 1938-1943.--Life as an Official War Artist, 1943-1946.--To Liverpool, london and back Again, 1946-1953.--Touring the Pacific and Settling Sydney, 1953-1959.--Success, Anxiety and change, 196 0-1968.