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Lloyd Rees AC CMG
Lloyd Rees AC CMG (1895–1988), artist and teacher, studied art in Brisbane from 1910 to 1916, and in England and Europe in the early 1920s. A prominent landscape artist, his works drew from both the European and Australian landscape tradition, and often included the Sydney Harbour foreshore and suburbs. After building a holiday house on the south coast of New South Wales, he painted many landscapes of the area. Later, when his son settled in Hobart in the late 1960s, his works began to include the Tasmanian landscape. Rees' landscapes won wide recognition among both the public and the art world with their unpretentious style which combined careful analysis and sensuality. During his long career he produced paintings, prints and drawings, as well as lecturing in painting and drawing at the University of Sydney. Awarded the Wynne Prize in 1950 and 1982, Rees wrote two memoirs The Small Treasures of a Lifetime (1969) and Peaks and Valleys (1985).
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Lloyd Rees
Australian landscape painter (1895–1988)
For the Australian chemical physicist, see Albert Lloyd George Rees.
Lloyd Frederic ReesAC CMG (17 March 1895 – 2 December 1988) was an Australian landscapepainter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings.
Most of Rees's works are preoccupied with depicting the effects of light and emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and nature. Rees's oeuvre is dominated by sketches and paintings, in which the most frequent subject is the built environment in the landscape.
Early life and education
Rees was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the seventh of eight children of Owen Rees and his wife Angèle Burguez,[1] who was half Mauritian, half Cornish.[2][3][4]
Rees attended Ironside State School Ironside State School and Ithaca Creek State School in Brisbane's inner west.[5] After formal art training at Brisbane's Central Technical College,[4] he commenced work as a commercial artist in 1917.[1]
Early career
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Lloyd Rees
Biography
One of the pre-eminent landscape artists of his age, Lloyd Rees was a skilled painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He sought to build upon the legacy of the European landscape painting, taking inspiration from artists such as Corot and Turner while also drawing from the Australian landscape tradition. His approach varied throughout his life from the precise analytical drawings and paintings produced during the 1920s and 30s, through the rhythmic, more sombre works of the 1940s and 50s, to the visions of light that characterised his late works.
Rees studied at Brisbane Technical College with Godfrey Rivers, Martyn Roberts, and LJ Harvey before moving to Sydney in 1917, where he worked as a commercial illustrator for the advertising office Smith & Julius. He travelled to Europe in 1923 and 1924, continuing his art studies at the Chelsea Polytechnic College in London. The first of several European tours, this initial visit had a profound impact on Rees’ developing artistic practice. The Sydney Harbour foreshore and suburbs, however, provided one of the greates
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