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Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Norman Lyndsay Gallery

Norman Lyndsay (1879-1969) was a famous Australian artist, sculptor, editorial cartoonist, scale modeler and boxer. He lived in Faulconbridge, a suburb of Sydney. The house has a large garden full of sculptures that he made out of concrete, his preferred medium. These are all of nude women and so were his paintings. This caused a stir in the 1940s and pictures and statues were burned. (See His story on Wikipedia)
He had a cottage for doing his engravings and another for his painting. He even had a bed in there for when he couldn't be bothered to go across to the house.










We paid a visit to the gallery and had tea and scones sitting in the sun! Yes we've had some sun.

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