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Brett Whiteley
Australian artist (1939–1992)
This article is about the artist.
For the Australian politician, see Brett Whiteley (politician).
Brett WhiteleyAO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist.
When Bourke-White's portrait of Gandhi was originally published in it was accompanied by an article on the Mahatma's gruelling experiments on his body, all.
He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.[1] He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, the United Kingdom, Fiji and the United States.
Early years
Growing up in Longueville, a suburb of Sydney, Whiteley was educated at The Scots School, Bathurst[2] and The Scots College, Bellevue Hill. He started drawing at a very early age.
While he was a teenager, he painted on weekends in the Central West of New South Wales and Canberra with such works as The soup kitchen (1958).[3] Throughout 1956 to 1959 at the National Art School in East Sydney, Whiteley attended drawing classes.
While still at schoo