Victor O'Connor
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Victor George O'Connor was an Australian artist and an exponent of the principles of social realist art. From the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s his work embodied social and political comme
Vic O'Connor at the 'Three Realists' art exhibition in 1946, courtesy The Argus newspaper, 17 July 1946, p. 13
Melbourne High School
VG O'Connor 1939, military dossier page 2, in National Australian Archives, World War 2 collection.
Albert Tucker's 1940 photo of the prize-winning painting by Vic O'Connor is part of a collection of Tucker's contact prints, 1930–1945, courtesy State Library Victoria
Albert Tucker (artist)
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Albert Lee Tucker was an Australian artist and member of the Heide Circle, a group of modernist artists and writers associated with Heide, the Melbourne home of art patrons John and Sunday Reed. Along
Victor O'Connor
…in Bourke Street from which came the important painters of the 1940s, Russell Drysdale, Sali Herman and Peter Purves Smith. The "untrained" moderns Albert Tucker, Vic O'Connor and Adrian Lawlor came to him too. The studio was the focus of conscious modernism. In and out went Sam Atyeo, Ian Fairweather, Jock…
Albert Tucker in 1940
Albert Tucker and Joy Hester in 1939