Society of Artists (Australia)
The Society of Artists was an influential Sydney based group of progressive artists who staged annual exhibitions from 1895 to the 1960s. The Society included many of Australia's best artists of the time. It lapsed during the mid 1960s.
Society of Artists' Selection Committee, 1907 — group of artists including Julian Ashton (left) and Norman Lindsay (5th from left).
Catalogue cover for the Society's 1952 exhibition.
Sir William Dobell was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named in his honour.
William Dobell, 1942, photograph by Max Dupain
Sir William Dobell visiting an art class at the Newcastle Technical College Art School in 1956
Plaque at the site of Dobell's interment at Newcastle Memorial Park in Beresfield