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Kenneth Jack

Artist

(1924 – 2006)


On consignment

Basalt Gorge & Waterhole, Einesleigh QLD (crop)

Watercolour 1997

71 x 103 cm

Existing Frame

$6800 ONO



Narranderra (detail crop)

Watercolour

42 x 59 cm

Existing Frame

$4800 ONO



Church at Ross

Watercolour 28x36 cm

Existing Frame

$ 1800 ONO



Peter’s Black Stump Hotel (detail crop)

Merriwagga

Watercolour 31x44 cm

Existing frame

$5500 ONO



Brief Biographical Notes


1924

Born Melbourne

1943-1945

War Service RAAF Survey & Cartographical draughtsman: New Guinea & Borneo with 500 war drawings in War Memorial, Canberra.

Studied Art at RMIT

1955 Onwards

Member of Australian Watercolour Institute


1946-1968 Education Dept Art Instructor incl. sixteen years at Caulfield Tech (CIT)


1967 Designed & painted mural for the Austra;ian Pavilion, Expo 67 Montreal


1968 Founder of Painting & Printmaking Depts, becoming Head of Dept in 1968


1969-1976

Member CIT Council

1970

Designed tapestry coat of Arms for the Australion, Expo 70 Osaka

1974 Since 1974 Member of Natn Register of Prominent American & International Notables

1977 Elected to Royal Watercolour Services, London

1979-1981 President of the Australian Branch of London’s Old Watercolour Society’s Club; Patron for several years from 1981

1980-1983 Foundation Member of Federal Government’s Artbank Board

1982 Awarded MBE for services to Art

1987 "Awarded AM- Member of Order of Australia (AM) for services to art particularly to Watercolour Painting

Awarded Medal of Honour , American Biographical Institute"

1984-2023 To be completed



REPRESENTED

In Collections of HM King’s Grandmother, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Cincinnati Art Museum, National Collection Canberra , All State Capital City National Art Galleries

PUBLICATIONS

1988 Kenneth Jack: Monograph, Bay Books

1990 Kenneth Jack World War II Paintings & Drawings, Boolarong Pubications


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