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Brett Whiteley was born in Sydney in 1939 and grew up at Longueville. He was sent to boarding school at the Scots School in Bathurst and was awarded first prize in the Young Painters' section of the Bathurst Show. He attended Scots College in Sydney briefly in 1954-55 before leaving school in 1956.
The MLC Building is a landmark modernist skyscraper in the central business district of North Sydney, on a block bounded by Miller Street, Denison Street and Mount Street (Brett Whiteley Place). Planned in 1954 and completed in 1957, the complex was designed in the modernist Post-war International style by architects, Bates, Smart & McCutcheon .
Artist Brett Whiteley lived in a house overlooking the Bay with his wife Wendy Whiteley; Wendy continued to live there as of 2019. [7] In 2018 the NSW Government granted heritage status to the Whiteleys' house, its views of Sydney Harbour, and Wendy's remarkable Secret Garden in recognition of the significance of the place to the history of ...
Front of the Brett Whiteley gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney Whiteley's sculpture, Nude (1962). Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. [1]
North Sydney Oval; Stanton Library; Brett Whiteley Square; Museum at Mary MacKillop Place, which tells the story of Australia's first Catholic saint; Don Bank Museum, devoted to the history of the local area; Greenwood Plaza shopping complex (built under the former public school, founded in 1878 and renamed after its Principal) North Sydney ...
The Brett Whiteley Foundation, promotes and encourages knowledge and appreciation of the work of the late Brett Whiteley. The Art Gallery Society of NSW is the gallery's membership organisation. Its objectives are to enhance members' enjoyment of art, and to raise funds for the gallery's collection.
Henri's Armchair is a 1974 painting by Australian artist Brett Whiteley. The work depicts the interior of Whiteley's house looking out towards Sydney Harbour and is part of the artist's Lavender Bay series. [1] The work is named after Henri Matisse, an artist that Whiteley admired. [2] Whiteley sold the work to lawyer and art dealer Clive Evatt.
Wendy Whiteley OAM Born Wendy Susan Julius 1941 (age 82–83) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Nationality Australian Education Julian Ashton Art School Known for Visual arts Movement Avant-garde Spouse Brett Whiteley (m. 1962 ; div. 1989) Wendy Susan Whiteley OAM (née Julius ; born 1941) is best known as the former wife of the Australian artist Brett Whiteley, and as the mother of their ...