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Nora Heysen AM (11 January 1911 – 30 December 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist.

Nora Heysen
Photograph of Heysen by Harold Cazneaux, 1939, Sydney
Born	11 January 1911 Hahndorf, South Australia
Died	30 December 2003 Sydney, Australia
Education	School of Fine Arts, Adelaide Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney
Known for	WWII, 1st woman Australian war artist 1st woman to win Archibald Prize
Notable work	Madame Elink Schuurman 1938
Spouse(s)	Dr. Robert Black
Awards	Member of the Order of Australia Melrose Prize for Portraiture Archibald Prize Australia Council Award for Achievement in the Arts

Early years

Heysen was born in Hahndorf, South Australia as the fourth child of landscape painter (later Sir) Hans Heysen and his wife Selma Heysen (née Bartels), and was raised at The Cedars in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. She studied art from 1926 to 1930 at the School of Fine Arts in Adelaide under F. Millward Grey and sold paintings to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1930. From 1930 to 1933, she continued to study two days a week at the School, and worked in her own studio the rest of the time. In 1931 she visited Sydney with her parents, and spent two weeks studying at the Julian Ashton Art School.[1]

Early career

Heysen's first solo exhibition was held in Sydney in 1933. In 1934 she traveled to London with her family, remaining in Europe, after they returned home, until 1937 studying and painting. When she returned to Australia she returned briefly to Adelaide and then moved to Sydney.

Archibald Prize

In 1938, she entered two portraits in the Archibald Prize. Her portrait of Madame Elink Schuurman was awarded the prize and she became the first woman to win the Archibald.[2] There was a controversy involving criticism of her win by painter Max Meldrum.

War artist

On October 12, 1943, she became the first woman to be appointed as an Australian war artist at the rank of captain. "I was commissioned to depict the women's war effort. There was that restriction on what I did. So I was lent around to all the services, the air force, the navy and the army, to depict the women working at everything they did during the war".[3] During her service Heysen completed over 170 works of art and was discharged from service in 1946 in New Guinea.

Family life

Following her discharge from war service Heysen went to London and later returned to Sydney in 1948. While in New Guinea, she met Dr. Robert Black, whom she married in 1953. She continued to paint, exhibit and travel with her husband. Her marriage ended in 1972.

Heysen's works are currently being held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Library of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and several state galleries.

Reception

A 1939 article in The Australian Women's Weekly ran with the headline "Girl Painter Who Won Art Prize is also Good Cook"[4] and lists three of Heysen's favourite recipes along with her strategies for achieving domestic duties and leaving time for painting.

A major retrospective exhibition of the work of daughter and father, Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art was curated by the National Gallery of Victoria March - July 2019. Reviewing it, Sydney Morning Herald critic John McDonald described Nora's career as a "fractured, stop-start affair",[5] but that in a "popular rethinking of the Heysen's place in local art history ... Nora's star has risen while her father's has declined".[5] McDonald nominated as Nora's signature work her "breathtaking still life, Eggs (1927)" from the Hinton collection in the New England Regional Art Museum,[6] and described her Still Life of quinces (1933) from the same collection as "painted with the precision of an old master".[6]

Awards

In 1993 she was awarded the Australia Council's Award for Achievement in the Arts and on 26 January 1998 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to art.

• 1933: Melrose Prize for Portraiture
• 1938: Archibald Prize for her portrait of Adine Michele Elink Schuurman
• 1993: Australia Council Award for Achievement in the Arts
• 1998: Order of Australia (AM)

Notes

References

• Australian Art: Artist: Heysen, Nora Accessed: 2007-11-21
• Australian War Memorial. Fifty Australians: Nora Heyson
• National Library of Australia. 2001. Nora Heysen Exhibition
• Williamson, Kate Art Interview: Nora Heysen (1911-2003) Accessed: 2007-11-21

Further reading

• Hylton, Jane; Heysen, Nora, 1911-2003 (2009), Nora Heysen : light and life, Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-1-86254-840-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Mattingley, Christobel (March 2007). "Nora, daughter of Hans Heysen : artist in her own right". National Library of Australia News. XVII (6): 7–10.

External links

• Madame Elink Schuurman 1938 - Archibald Prize winning portrait
• Nora Heysen at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Motherhood 1941 – Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
• AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson) 1944 – Australian War Memorial

Awards
Preceded by Normand Baker	Archibald Prize 1938 for Mme. Elink Schuurman	Succeeded by Max Meldrum

На других языках

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[de] Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen, AM (* 11. Januar 1911 in Hahndorf, South Australia; † 30. Dezember 2003 in Sydney, Australien) war eine australische Malerin, die 1938 als erste Frau den Archibald Prize für Porträtmalerei erhielt und als erste australische Frau zur offiziellen Kriegskünstlerin ernannt wurde.

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- [en] Nora Heysen

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[fr] Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen, né le 11 janvier 1911 et morte le 30 décembre 2003, est une artiste australienne, reconnue pour ses portraits et ses natures mortes. Elle est la première femme à remporter le prix Archibald en 1938 et la première femme australienne nommée artiste de guerre officielle.

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[it] Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen (11 gennaio 1911 – 30 dicembre 2003) è stata una pittrice australiana, la prima donna a vincere il premio per la ritrattistica Archibald Prize e ad essere nominata come artista ufficiale di guerra, per ritrarre gli scenari dei campi di battaglia.

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