Ian Fairweather
a Life in Letters
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Publication
2019 - Text Publishing Company
Language
English
Word Count
160,000 words, Guess
Page Count
640 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781925355253
- ISBN-10192535525X
- OCLC Control Number1108158022
- Better World Books9781925355253
- Open LibraryOL28731217M
Classifications
- LCCND1105.F34 A3 2019
Description
When he died in 1974 after a long period of self-imposed austerity and improvisation on Bribie Island, Queensland, Ian Fairweather was at the apex of his fame. He had been called 'our greatest painter', and his works were keenly sought by galleries, collectors and artists. Born in 1891 in Scotland, Fairweather had lived a peripatetic life, forever seeking the right place to settle. He was a prodigious and idiosyncratic letter writer--wryly documenting for friends and family members his travels, his struggles with his painting and Chinese translations, and the changing conditions on Bribie, as well as commenting on literature and world affairs. Seven hundred of the painter's letters are known to be in existence, and in their selection Claire Roberts and John Thompson have created the definitive volume of Fairweather's correspondence: the closest thing to an autobiography of one of Australia's most important and enduring artists.
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