Ernest Buckmaster
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Ernest William Buckmaster (1897–1968) Australian artist
born in Victoria who won the Archibald Prize
in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine
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Buckmaster studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne
http://www.wessexgallery.com.au/australian_paintings.php?PHPSESSID=a5ab7116f8331ce513f56f9019662a13.
He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate.
His work has been widely popular in Australia and New Zealand; public art galleries in Australia and New Zealand
hold large collections of his work. Buckmaster disliked modern art
, publicly denigrating it in letters to a newspaper.
Buckmaster was a Second World War official war artist
for the Australian military's Military History Section http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/war_artists/artists.htm. Part of his duties took him to Singapore http://www.diggerhistory2.info/post-war/1949/chapter14.htm.
Buckmaster's work is on loan to the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
born in Victoria who won the Archibald Prize
Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine
William Irvine (Australian politician)
Sir William Hill Irvine GCMG , Australian politician and judge, was the 21st Premier of Victoria. Irvine was born in Newry in County Down, Ireland, into a Scottish-Presbyterian family...
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Buckmaster studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
http://www.wessexgallery.com.au/australian_paintings.php?PHPSESSID=a5ab7116f8331ce513f56f9019662a13.
He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate.
His work has been widely popular in Australia and New Zealand; public art galleries in Australia and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
hold large collections of his work. Buckmaster disliked modern art
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
, publicly denigrating it in letters to a newspaper.
Buckmaster was a Second World War official war artist
War artist
A war artist depicts some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how "war shapes lives." War artists have explored a visual and sensory dimension of war which is often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.- Definition and context:A...
for the Australian military's Military History Section http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/war_artists/artists.htm. Part of his duties took him to Singapore http://www.diggerhistory2.info/post-war/1949/chapter14.htm.
Buckmaster's work is on loan to the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne.