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	glbtq >> arts >> Dobell, Sir William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Dobell is regarded by many as one of Australia's greatest portrait painters.
		While Dobell's oeuvre is replete with homosexual subtexts, the artist spent his life hiding his sexuality from what was then a very conservative Sydney society, wary of the potential harm to his career that an open display of homosexuality could cause.
		Dobell's painting Boy at the Basin (1932) is indicative of the influence of seventeenth-century Dutch painting on the young artist, especially the tight brushwork and sensitive use of light evinced in Vermeer's interiors.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/dobell_w.html (880 words)

	William Dobell, Sir Biography / Biography of William Dobell, Sir Biography
		William Dobell was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on Sept. 24, 1899.
		The award was immediately challenged on the grounds that Dobell's entry showed a degree of distortion which made it a caricature rather than a true portrait, but the court upheld the judging panel's decision.
		Dobell's place in Australia's art history is analyzed in several publications giving concise coverage of the work of various painters.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-dobell-sir (516 words)

	Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives:
		William Dobell is considered one of Australia's greatest landscape and portrait painters.
		I have further discovered that in 1960 Sir William Dobell was commissioned by Time magazine to paint a portrait of Sir Robert Menzies for their front cover.
		Since becoming the candidate for Dobell in February last year, and since my election on 10 November, I have spent a great deal of time meeting people in the electorate, getting to know them and also the issues that affect them and are important to the local community.
	www.aph.gov.au /house/members/firstspeech.asp?id=ANF (3186 words)

	Out of the fire of controversy, a Dobell classic rises again - smh.com.au
		The painting was already steeped in controversy after the court case in 1944 that challenged its authenticity as a portrait and ruined forever the relationship between Dobell and the reclusive Smith.
		For purists, the subtlety and sense of vulnerability that made Dobell's portrait of Smith the 1943 Archibald Prize winner was at that point lost forever.
		Dobell refused to restore it and in the mid-1960s it was sent to London, a flened, bubbled remnant of its former self.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/12/1047431091735.html (434 words)

	Lili-Ann Berg
		For William Dobell and Joshua Smith the four-day hearing became an agonising experience that would cause long-lasting damage not only to their health and their individual careers, but also to the deeply personal friendship that had developed between them.
		William Dobell, on the other hand, had spent ten years in London and other European cities and was well aware of overseas trends in contemporary art.
		Dobell, who worried that they might destroy the painting, always refused, but agreed to their tearful request never to show it in public again.
	home.iprimus.com.au /painless/street/liliann.htm (2812 words)

	Billy Boy - William Dobell-De Mer's
		Many people from outside Australia would be unaware of Dobell's presence in the artworld, but his ability and career are only now being perused and his status in Australia is building on into legend.
		All through Dobell's portraits (there are 100's of them) we see his unique ability to capture his subject, with not only his great observational skills but also the way he used artistic technique with brushwork to reflect other subtleties of character.
		Dobell's use of paint reflects the Billy Boy's misty drunken look at the world with himself placed centrally in it.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/8096/billyboy.html (363 words)

	William Dobell Biography
		Dobell won the £1500 Australian Women’s Weekly portrait prize with a portrait of Helena Rubinstein in 1957, and Time magazine commissioned a cover portrait of the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon.
		These events were to be the precursors of great changes not only in Dobell’s own affairs but also in the local status of all artists; by 1962 the economic status of artists throughout Australia bore little relationship to the conditions of 1939.
		The crowning touch to Dobell’s career was a large retrospective exhibition held at the AGNSW in July 1965: it comprised 224 pictures from all periods.
	www.cookshill.com /hmri/artists/william_dobell_bio.html (630 words)

	Nexus - Gallery: Dobell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The artist was William Dobell and this is the story of his portrait of Joshua Smith.
		The portrait is the centrepiece of a small retrospective of William Dobell's work and respected curator Jane Hylton has written a book about the controversial painting.
		William Dobell left Sydney for a quiet country life, and in a rare interview in 1964, told how he stopped painting portraits after the court case.
	abcasiapacific.com /nexus/stories/s839086.htm (660 words)

	Dobell House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir William Dobell occupied the House from 1942-1970.
		When Dobell died the Memorial Committee was established to ensure that the house was not demolished or closed to the public.
		Dobell showed a great deal of pride about his father’s painting when visitors came to the house and he made a particular point to show it to his guests
	amol.org.au /newcastle/hunterchapter/Dobell/details.html (370 words)

	AGNSW: 2005 Dobell Prize for Drawing
		The Dobell Prize for Drawing is one of the most coveted art awards in Australia.
		Initiated by the trustees of the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, the Prize was first awarded in 1993.
		A condition of the Dobell Prize for Drawing is that the Art Gallery of New South Wales automatically acquires the prize-winning drawing each year.
	www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au /media/archives_2005/dobell_announcement (246 words)

	Newcastle City Council News and Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dr William Bowmore AO OBE announced the intended bequest of his major unique Antiquities Collection and his significant Asian Ceramics Collection to the city of Newcastle in front of a packed audience of 300 people at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery this morning.
		The announcement was made at the official dedication of the William Bowmore Room by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of New South Wales.
		William Bowmore was born in 1909 at Dalby in Queensland, the son of migrants from Lebanon.
	www.ncc.nsw.gov.au /news/archive/mrdata.cfm?MID=1199&M=10&Y=2004 (650 words)

	main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dobell won the Archibald Portrait Prize in 1943, 48, 59; The Wynne Prize, 1948.
		Dobell is represented in the collection of the NGA; AGNSW; AGSA; AGWA; MAGNT; NGV; QAG; QVMAG; TMAG; AWM; many Regional Galleries; Uni.
		"Dobell¹s paintings constitute a gallery of recognisable Australian types unequalled in the history of the nation¹s art".
	www.nagyfineart.com.au /sl_william_dobell.html (161 words)

	PM - Artificial eye offers limited sight to the blind
		The electronic seeing device is a brainchild of Dr William Dobell [phonetic] from the Dobell Institute in New York.
		WILLIAM DOBELLE: Well, we think that it's suitable for virtually all types of blindness.
		WILLIAM DOBELLE: Fewer than one percent of the blind community use a cane or a dog.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s93840.htm (638 words)

	Dobell Family
		The family of Daniel Dobell 1720 -1782 and Elizabeth Oake was raised in Cranbrook Kent.
		Due to financial difficulties largely the result of Jesse Dobell, Mary's eldest son, she was forced to sell the mill in 1819.
		Philip DOBELL was the son of Henry Dobell the first operator of the Cranbrook Mill.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~leenor/page4.html (355 words)

	William Dobell exhibition at Carrick Hill: In the south eastern suburbs of Adelaide City region of South Australia
		This piece won William Dobell, the coveted prize for portraiture, the Archibald, in 1943 that set in train a row of epic proportions.
		The detailed studies of Joshua Smith are proof of the lengths that William Dobell went to in capturing the essence of his subject.
		Dobell sold it to the Haywards in 1948 but a fire at Carrick Hill a decade later destroyed much of the west wing and with it many of the Hayward's prized pieces.
	www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/william_dobell_exhib.html (482 words)

	Queensland Art Gallery - William Dobell - Printable
		Gabrielides was a Greek waiter who worked in the London cafe frequented by Dobell in the 1930s.
		When painting a portrait, Dobell usually completed a series of pencil sketches in the sitter's presence, seeking to capture key characteristics.
		Dobell would paint the final version of the portrait based on these preliminary sketches, selecting the most insightful as a guide, but working neither directly from it, nor his model.
	www.qag.qld.gov.au /collection/australian_art_to_1970/william_dobell?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=printer_friendly (182 words)

	Dobell House...the home and studio of Sir William Dobell
		Dobell House is owned and operated by the Sir William Dobell Memorial Committee which is a completely volunteer organisation.
		The Committee maintains the House as historically accurate as possible to reflect the life and artistic genius of its famous owner Sir William Dobell.
		Groups receive a presentation about Dobell, his life, his art and the history of the House before they experience the House and Studio at their leisure.
	www.dobellhouse.org.au (183 words)

	The Archibald Prize, Australia's premier portraiture award
		William Dobell's 1943 Archibald win was particularly controversial - many pundits argued his portrait of Joshua Smith so distorted Smith's features that it could not be called a portrait.
		Dobell's win however, expanded the concept of what could be a portrait, and abstract interpretations as well as conventional portraits were subsequently submitted.
		The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation sponsors The Dobell Prize for Drawing to encourage excellence in drawing and draughtsmanship.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/archibald (1073 words)

	William Dobell's 'The Dead Landlord'
		William Dobell's The Dead Landlord is a ghastly his'n'hers: his belly, her buttocks; his distension, her distraction; his deathliness, her pulchritude.
		What stayed with the painter was Mrs Kernan, brushing her hair in grief as she faced the wall, unable to confront poor hubbie's belly-up cadaver.
		Dobell painted two versions of the scene, a sketched and a finished work, one of which later inspired Patrick White to compose The Ham Funeral.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/atoday/stories/s157610.htm (620 words)

	Walkabout - Wangi Wangi
		The 1943 award became one of the most controversial prizes in Australian art history when anti-modernist forces challenged the decision in court on the grounds that Dobell's experimental portrait of Joshua Smith was not properly a portrait.
		Dobell House is open on Sundays and public holidays from 2.00 p.m.
		Now owned by the National Trust the building is located in Dobell Place, which is a tiny side road off Dobell Drive, the main road out to the end of the peninsula.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NSWWangiWangi.shtml (768 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Dobell Sir William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Dobell Sir William
		Dobell, Sir William (1899-1970), Australian painter, best known for his portraits.
		Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Dobell studied painting in...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Dobell_Sir_William.html (116 words)

	Freehills - Article - Archibald Prize court controversy again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Dobell portrait depicts a gaunt, almost skeletal Smith, and critics of the work argued that the work was a caricature and not a portrait.
		The Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and William Dobell were the defendants to the action in which the relators sought to restrain payment of the prize money to William Dobell on the basis that any such payment would be in breach of trust.
		It was alleged that the 'picture painted by the defendant William Dobell is not a portrait but is a caricature of the said Joshua Smith bearing a certain degree of resemblance to him but being the characteristic features of his appearance highly distorted and exaggerated'.
	www.freehills.com.au /publications/publications_5173.asp (1457 words)

	William Dobell (1899 - 1970) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Born in Australia, Sir William Dobell won a scholarship in 1929 that granted him admission to the Slade School.
		By 1944, Dobell had gained popularity throughout his native country and was awarded the Archibald Prize for portraiture around the same time with his painting, Portrait of an Artist.
		William Blake, Balladsä relating to Animals by William Hayley (London: Richard Phillips, 1805), 1805
	wwar.com /masters/d/dobell-william.html (1005 words)

	Shared Experience: Art & War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dobell trained at the Julian Ashton School in Sydney from 1924 to 1929 and at the Slade School in London in 1929, returning to Australia in 1939.
		He engaged in war service, first in a camouflage unit and later in the CCC as a labourer.
		He was later appointed by the AWC to record the activities of the CCC.
	www.awm.gov.au /sharedexperience/artist/artist.asp?id=21 (59 words)

	Archibald Prize Challenge
		While William Dargie might not have struggled quite so much as he painted for the Archibald, he never-the-less had to deal with difficulties, from a painting being sunk by enemy fire to a real fire at his studio.
		The recently introduced prize condition disallowing the submission of wet paintings would have eliminated the entry of the Dobell portrait, a winner that might be argued to be an example of the sort of excellence that Archibald sought to nurture with his prize.
		Dobell against the odds did manage 3 winners (1943, 1948 and 1959) but the remaining 4 years of the 20 were won by artists destined to be1 time winners for that period.
	kingscross.blogs.com /archibald (7260 words)

	Sir William Dobell (1899-1970) - Ronald Coles Investment Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reference: Sydney Morning Herald 20 November 1973,p.l Following the strain of the infamous 1944 Archibald Prize court case, when his prize-winning portrait of the artist Joshua Smith was challenged as a work of caricature, the distraught artist, William Dobell retreated form Sydney to the sleepy central coast town of Wangi Wangi.
		It was here that Dobell was to live, in the beach house built by his father, until his death 1970.
		Never one to flatter his sitters Dobell once complained of the women who demanded to be painted, "These women are pests, they all want to be painted.
	www.ronaldcolesgalleries.com.au /dobell_study-titivators.html (315 words)

	William Blundell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Blundell (b. ?) is an Australian painter and art forger who painted forgeries for Sydney art dealer Germaine Curvers.
		Blundell painted works with the style of, among others, Australian artists Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan, Lloyd Rees, Arthur Streeton, Brett Whiteley and also Claude Monet.
		According to Blundell, he sold them to Curvers as copies for decorative purposes only.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Blundell (187 words)

	The 2002 Archibald Prize - Wynne and Sulman Prizes and Dobell Drawing Prize - Art Gallery of New South Wales - ...
		The Archibald Prize was first awarded in 1921, and over the years some of Australia’s prominent artists have won, including George Lambert (1927), William Dobell (1943, 48 and 59) and Brett Whiteley (1976 and 78).
		Sponsored by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, the Prize was initiated in order to encourage excellence in drawing and draughtsmanship.
		The judge for the 2002 Dobell Prize for Drawing is Jan Senbergs.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2002/05/31/29968.html (982 words)

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