Cape Schanck
44cm (W) x 24cm (H)
Oil
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Artist:
Percy Leason
This artwork is part of the VAS Collection
Percy was born in Kaniva, Victoria and attended evening classes at the National Gallery of Victoria. He moved to Sydney and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist before becoming a student of the tonal realist Max Meldrum. Leason relocated to New York in 1937 and opened an art school teaching a modified form of Meldrumism. In 1945 he won the Audubon Artist’s Hollander Prize and in the 1950s was elected a fellow of the London Royal Society of Arts, His last solo exhibition was held in new York in 1958.
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
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