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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  ABC News Obituary - Arthur Boyd
Boyd was a natural artist and a shining light of the 20th century art world.
Boyd was brought up in a lively family of practicing artists, with whom he studied and developed his painting, print-making and pottery skills.
Boyd was largely self-taught, although he spent a year at the National Gallery of Victoria's art school.
www.abc.net.au /news/features/obits/boyd   (484 words)

  
 Obituary: Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) "Concepts involve the future, possessions don't"
Boyd's paintings, drawings, lithographs and ceramics transformed the harsh reality of urban and bush Australia into a mythical place, a country inhabited by an eclectic collection of characters and events drawn from ancient Greece, the Old Testament, and Australian history.
Boyd and most of these young, Melbourne-based artists were at odds with the stultifying Australian art scene—its preference for naturalistic, self-satisfied and banal bush landscapes or bland, soul-less portraits.
Boyd's Nebuchadnezzar is a strange bewildered man, a fallen idol who transmutates into a toadlike animal and is forced to wander in a nightmarish and infinite wasteland harrassed by lions and other creatures.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jun1999/boyd-j03.shtml   (1705 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd and Saint Francis of Assisi
Arthur Boyd and Saint Francis of Assisi by Margaret Pont is the first publication to reproduce the pastels in full colour, as well as tapestries produced subsequently by Maunfactura Tapecarias de Portalegre, Portugal, 1972-1974.
Arthur would not have been disappointed - he was thoroughly unspoilt and in awe of the Neuraths and their very European, intellectual circle, including the artist Oskar Kokoschka, whom he met.
When Boyd's health began to fail, certain lifelong friendships and professional relationships were seriously compromised because of the family's concealment of the nature and extent of his illness.
www.studio-international.co.uk /books/arthur_boyd.asp   (1358 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd interview
Arthur Merric Boyd died at the Mercy Hospital in Melbourne on Saturday 24 April 1999.
Yes, there are pretty landscapes, biblical scenes, mythology, portraits, sensual etchings and dead animals, crazed goats and pencil nudes, but beneath a career spanning most of the 20th Century, beats the depth of thought of an artist distilling and representing the mood of the era.
Boyd's political views were shaped in the "shared suffering" of the Depression and then World War II.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dingonet/arthurbo.htm   (3003 words)

  
 Grafico Arts: Australian artist Arthur Boyd. An obituary by Sue Smith, April 1999
Born at Murrumbeena, Victoria in 1920, Arthur Boyd was the son of Merric and Doris Boyd, potters and painters, and the brother of painter David and sculptor Guy.
Boyd visited Australia several times during the early 1970s, and in 1975 gave to the National Gallery of Australia a large number of paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics, representing the bulk of what he still retained of his own work.
Boyd later said of this series: ``It was the poor that were being punished for no crime of their own.
www.grafico-qld.com /exhibition/boyd_obt.htm   (1332 words)

  
 THE  BOYD  FAMILY OF YORK COUNTY, MAINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Boyd family of Kilmarnock, Scotland, from which is descended all the Boyd families of Scottish origin, is a branch of the Breton family of Dinan, or de Dinant.
Sir Robert Boyd was one of the guarantors of the treaty of peace with England in 1323.
John Crauford, son of the aforementioned Robert Crauford, settled the feud between the Boyds and the Montgomeries by arbitration, and married Janet Montgomery, daughter of the Laird of Giffen.
www.clanboyd.info /state/maine/famhist/arthur1/index.htm   (6697 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd
Arthur Boyd was one of Australia’s greatest painters.
The war deeply effected Boyd and from this period of seeming devastation he produced some of his best work in the form of disturbing psychological images that expressed his horror at and suffering during the war years.
Arthur Boyd is represented in all state galleries throughout Australia, as well as many university, regional and public gallery collections.
www.art-galleries-schubert.com.au /www/artist_info/Arthur_Boyd.htm   (546 words)

  
 BOYD
Arthur Boyd was one of Australia's most widely respected and prolific artists.
Boyd was brought up in a lively family of practicing artists, with whom he studied and developed his painting, printmaking and pottery skills.
It was Boyd’s hope that the natural beauty of Bundanon and the Shoalhaven River would be preserved for the inspiration of future generations, and he lived long enough to see many young artists enjoying temporary residencies there.
www.articons.co.uk /boyd.htm   (757 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Arthur Boyd was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria on 24 July 1920, son of the potter, sculptor and painter, Merric Boyd and brother of David and Guy.
Boyd was conscripted into the army and served in the Army Survey Corps 1941-4.
Boyd remarked that `I did what was dictated to almost by the slabs of clay...
www.arts.uwa.edu.au /lw/waywewere/boyd.html   (389 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tapestry which is a greatly enlarged version of Arthur Boyd's painting hangs in the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra
Arthur Boyd AC OBE (20 July 1920-24 April 1999) was a member of the prominent Boyd artistic dynasty in Australia, with many relatives being painters, sculptors, architects or other arts professionals.
He represented Australia with Arthur Streeton at the Venice Biennale in 1958.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Boyd   (337 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd
Arthur Boyd is part of Australia's foremost art dynasties.
Most of his training was undertaken within the family fold under the tutelage of his grandfather Arthur Merrick Boyd.
Boyd felt the trauma of the war acutely and invested his work with a dark drama, He moved to London in the late 1950s and soon established an international reputation.
www.cookshill.com /hmri/artists/arthur_boyd.html   (106 words)

  
 Postcards - Feature: Art Gallery of SA - Arthur Boyd Collection
Arthur Boyd is considered one of the great Australian painters of the 20th Century.
Boyd was born in 1920 into a highly creative and supportive family.
The fall from grace is a common theme in Boyd's work, including his ceramics, like the fall of Icarus the man who sought to fly with the gods only to come crashing down to earth.
www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/arthur_boyd.html   (562 words)

  
 Boyd Arthur Merric Bloomfield - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Boyd, Arthur Merric Bloomfield (1920-1999), Australian painter and ceramic sculptor.
In 1944 Perceval, Boyd, and Peter Herbst founded the Arthur Merrick Boyd Pottery workshop at Murrumbeena.
A more genuine avant-garde modernism emerged in the late 1930s and 1940s in deliberate defiance of the insularity of Australian society.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Boyd_Arthur_Merric_Bloomfield.html   (116 words)

  
 Doris Boyd a life in family and art
Granny Boyd had a fantastic technique, but she didn't have this wonderful sort of impressionistic feeling that my mother had.
Despite the financial difficulties brought on by the fire and the Depression that followed in 1929, the Boyd children were always fed, and while their clothes may have sometimes been worn and patched, they were loved and always cared for.
He introduced the Boyds to new books, ideas and people, widening the intellectual scope of Open Country and encouraging a tradition of open and lively discussion that would continue in the decades to come.
www.members.optushome.com.au /scai1/dorisboyd   (1763 words)

  
 Arts Rush | Rivers + Rocks exhibition | Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley
For most people, Arthur Boyd is linked with the Shoalhaven River where his works reflect moods of subdued awe when confronted with the natural splendours to the outrage he felt at instances of environmental indifference.
For both Boyd and Whitely, the image of the river has been a continuing focus in their works.
Boyd taught the younger man the basic techniques of using the copperplate.
www.artsrush.com.au /riverrocks.htm   (599 words)

  
 Bundanon Trust - Collection
Built by Merric Boyd in 1908, it was a home, workplace and meeting ground for the Boyd family and many outstandingly creative individuals – including Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Yosl Bergner and John Perceval –; for thirty years.
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd and Mary and John Perceval lived at The Grange for a time in 1948-49 and 1951 respectively.
The theme of the exhibition is the element of fire as philosophical metaphor or in relationship to fire in the Australian spirit, landscape and cultural identity.
www.bundanon.com.au /collect.htm   (1598 words)

  
 "WEB-ARTS - Arthur Boyd "
Arthur Merric Boyd was born at Murrumbeena, Victoria on July 24 1920.
His first exhibition of paintings was held in Melbourne in 1937, and in 1958 his work was shown at the Vienna Biennale, and by 1960 when he held an exhibition in London he was an established artist with an international reputation.
Shortly before he died he established the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre at Bundanon, on the banks of the Shoalhaven River in NSW, on the property which he bequeathed to the people of Australia in 1993.
www.web-arts.com.au /AA/BOYD.html   (328 words)

  
 Savill Galleries
Arthur Boyd was born in 1920 in Murrumbeena to a very artistic family, Boyd started painting at an early age.
He was greatly encouraged by his grandfather, Arthur Merric, also a well-known landscape artist, whom he lived with at Rosebud from 1936-38.
Boyd's work is represented in the NGA, all state galleries, many regional galleries and numerous public and private collections, both nationally and internationally.
www.savill.com.au /arthurboyd.html   (324 words)

  
 Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Arthur Merric Bloomfield - Born 1920 and died 1999.
Prime Minister announces Arthur Boyd as Australian of the Year for his contribution to Australian art and his generosity to the Australian people.
Arthur has a series of postage stamps produced with his photo and examples of his work.
www.artema.com.au /boyd/aus_nz/arthermb.htm   (374 words)

  
 TIME.com: Seeking The Wild Little known outside of Australia, Arthur Boyd is a world-class painter -- May 2, 1994 -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
More's the pity: Boyd is 73 now, the evidence on his life's work is in, and his show suggests -- no, insists -- that he deserves to be seen as one of the West's major living painters.
The case of Boyd is doubly peculiar if you consider the kind of art that was in vogue right through the 1980s: Neoexpressionism.
Boyd seems never to have felt the Oedipal hostility to the past that garbled the rhetoric of Modernism.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,980639,00.html   (742 words)

  
 Arthur Martin Boyd
Boyd entered the execution chamber at 1:50 a.m.
Death row inmate Arthur Martin Boyd is scheduled for execution Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999, at 2 a.m.
Boyd was convicted March 22, 1983, in Surry County Superior Court of the stabbing murder of Wanda Phillips Hartman at a curb in front of a bank at a Mt. Airy shopping center Aug. 7, 1982.
www.doc.state.nc.us /dop/deathpenalty/boyd2.htm   (136 words)

  
 Boyd, Arthur Merric Bloomfield
Without doubt one of Australia's greatest artists of the 20th century, Boyd is the most recognisable of the famous artistic dynasty and was born on 20 July 1920 the eldest son of Merric Boyd (q.v.) and Doris née Gough (q.v.) and brother of Guy (q.v.).
The Boyd vision was for the gift to be a place where “his tribe could get together, paint, write, make music, explore the bush and the river, or just enjoy themselves”.
While travelling back to Sydney for the official opening, Boyd suffered a heart attack in February 1999, and died on 24 April 1999 at the Mercy Hospital while convalescing in Brighton survived by his wife Yvonne whom he married in March 1945 and his three children.
www.brightoncemetery.com /HistoricInterments/150Names/boyda.htm   (407 words)

  
 Notable and famous Boyds
Emma Minnie a'Beckett Boyd was Arthur Boyd Snr wife and she is a respected artist also whose art work hangs in the Melbourne National Gallery as well.
Arthur Boyd, Sydney Nolan and John Perceval are considered the three foremost Australian artists of their time (in that order).
Writer and poet, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of Arthur Merric Boyd.
www.clanboyd.info /famous   (2032 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd - Execution witnesses
Boyd is scheduled to be executed at Central Prison at 2 a.m., Thursday, October 21 by lethal injection.
Boyd was convicted March 22, 1983, in Surry County Superior Court of the murder of Wanda Phillips Hartman at a Mt. Airy shopping center Aug. 7, 1982.
Under Department of Correction policy, the district attorney and sheriff in the county of conviction nominate the six official witnesses.
www.doc.state.nc.us /dop/deathpenalty/boydwitness.htm   (222 words)

  
 Jacket # 7 - Garrie Hutchinson -- on Australian painter Arthur Boyd
Boyd was born in Melbourne 1920 into a potting and painting family where his talent was nurtured.
      I had a brief powerful encounter with Boyd, when I was a young poet in exile from the Australian government's hope to lock me in gaol for two years because I, like thousands of others, had not registered for what was euphemistically called 'national service' in Vietnam.
Arthur was just 49 years old then, the same age as I am now.
jacketmagazine.com /07/boyd.html   (863 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920-99) Artist, Potter and Soldier Brighton General Cemetery Trust.
Arthur Boyd Illustrations for The Circus Adelaide University
Arthur Boyd National Gallery of Victoria on Russell
www.trinity.wa.edu.au /plduffyrc/subjects/art/austart/boyd.htm   (167 words)

  
 Arthur & Yvonne Boyd Art Centre, Riversdale, NSW - Murcutt, Lark, Lewin - [pushpullbar]2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The building consists of accommodation and facilities for resident artists and students, intended to form a close connection and understanding with the surrounding countryside, as in the footsteps of Arthur Boyd.
In July (winter) it was a cold run in the middle of the night, but a hot shower in the morning watching the sun come up over the river was priceless.
The Arthur and Yvonne Education Centre at Riversdale is available to view by appointment.
www.pushpullbar.com /forums/showthread.php?t=744   (700 words)

  
 Staff Biographies, Arthur Meyer Boyd - FCNL
Arthur joined the FCNL staff in August, 1995, having previously been for many years the Baltimore Yearly Meeting representative to the FCNL General Committee, and clerk of the Personnel Committee, and a donor.
Prior Friends service has included being clerk of his Monthly Meeting, a regional director for American Friends Service Committee, and AFSC committee clerk and volunteer before that.
He is married to Margaret Boyd Meyer (Meg), and with his daughter they live in Baltimore, Maryland.
www.fcnl.org /about/bios/arthur_meyerboyd.htm   (149 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd - Original Limited Edition Collagraphs & Etching.
Arthur Boyd - Original Limited Edition Collagraphs & Etching.
Following the Zwemmer exhibition Arthur Boyd gained international recognition for his art.
He is considered by many important art historians as one of the most important Australian artists of the twentieth century.
www.savah.com.au /boyd.html   (242 words)

  
 Arthur D Boyd M.D.
Boyd AD; Crawford BK; Glassman L. "Surgical therapy of tuberculosis" IN: Tuberculosis Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Press BH; Colen SR; Boyd A; Golomb F. "Reconstruction of a large chest wall defect with a musculocutaneous free flap using anterolateral thigh musculature".
Mitnick HJ; Tunick P; Boyd A; Smiles SA; Choy R. "Subcutaneous thoracentesis utilizing an Ommaya reservoir in amyloid cardiomyopathy".
www.med.nyu.edu /pubs/boyda01.html   (1062 words)

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