Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Sir Sidney Nolan

Early Days:

   Nolan was born in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne. He was the eldest of four children. His family later moved to the St Kilda. Nolan attended the Brighton Road State School and then Brighton Technical School and left school aged 14. He enrolled at the Prahran Technical College, Department of Design and Crafts, in a course which he had already begun part-time by correspondence. From 1933, at the age of 16, he began almost six years of work for Fairfield Hats, Abbotsford, producing advertising and display stands with spray paints and dyes. From 1934 he attended night classes sporadically at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School.

Personal Details Name Sir Sidney Nolan Place of Birth Carlton Melbourne Date of Birth 22 April 1917 Date of Death 28 November 1992 (aged 75) Nationality Australian Field Painter Movement Surrealism Works The Trial, The Slip, Duck and Dog Hotel

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