04277cid a2200409 a 4500001000800000005001700008006001900025007001500044008004100059033002300100035001200123040001800135042000900153043001200162100003300174245013400207260001000341300003300351506013300384518013100517520124200648520113501890530008003025544023603105555007403341600004103415600004103456600001703497650005003514650004103564650003103605650003803636656001903674700002703693773008103720830006603801470419320180821114800.0m h cr|nnannn||n|n091019s2009 xx nnnn s t| eng 10a20090913a20090914 a4704193 aANLbengdANL aanuc au-at---1 aBoyd, David,d1924-20114ive10aDavid Boyd interviewed by Sheridan Palmer in the Australian art from 1950 to the present oral history projecth[sound recording]. c2009. a2 sound files (ca. 166 min.) aAccess open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. aRecorded on 13-14 September 2009 at St. Peters, N.S.W. and 8 March 2011 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T. aDavid Boyd talks about his family and family life; Boyd family members; Arthur Boyd; a Poliomyelitis epidemic; his sisters Lucy and Mary Boyd; John Perceval; brothers working for Army Cartographic Company, Swanston Street; the family home in Murrumbeena; memory of his parents as potters, kiln firing, wheel, pottery throwing; his family background; his music studies, Melbourne Conservatorium; his conscription into army; the change in his career from music to art, National Gallery Art School; Max Nicholson influences; Yosl Bergner; his religious faith and its impact on his art; Merric Boyd; his exhibition with John Yule; his early paintings being destroyed during his military service; his conflict with authority and the Army, military imprisonment; correspondence with mother during WWII; left-wing politics; European refugees after the war influencing the art scene; researching Tasmanian Aborigines, atrocities; Antipodean arcadia versus universal drama forming themes in his art; Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery, the success with pottery and sculptural ceramics; fellow students at the National Gallery Art School; his studio in a derelict building in Russell Street; Stan Halpern; Joy Hester, Albert Tucker; the Murrumbeena Group. aBoyd discusses his exhibitions at the University of Melbourne (1946 and 1947); criticisms; moving to England (1950), permission to make and sell their ceramics; successful exhibition of ceramics in Paris; British potters; the Brown Room; Jessie Trail; Anna Pavlova; establishing themselves in England; Arthur Boyd's exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery; Sidney Nolan; the colony of Australian artists at The Abbey; William Dobell; Russell Drysdale; Robert Hughes; moving to France with the family (1951); returning to London, moving into a studio in Chelsea; his first exhibition at Gallery One; his involvement with the Contemporary Art Society; John Reed's Museum of Modern Art; Melbourne art world; American Abstract Expressionism; Bernard Smith instigating the Antipodean Exhibition; John Olsen; Melbourne and Sydney rivalry; artistic styles; his symbolic, moral, figurative art; Antipodean Manifesto; his resilience and his human rights advocacy; winning the Italian Scholarship, the judges; living in Italy and painting his 'Trial' series, exhibiting these at the Zwemmer Gallery; influences on his art and emotional truth. aDigital master availablebNational Library of Australia;dnla.obj-2190687200 dPortraits of David Boyd during an oral history interview with Sheridan Palmer the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 March 2011;elocated at;aNational Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC Online access #NL40395/1-80 aTimed summary (5 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 88 leaves)10aBoyd, David,d1924-2011vInterviews.10aBoyd, Arthur,d1920-1999vAnecdotes.30aBoyd family. 0aArtistszAustraliay20th centuryvInterviews. 0aPainting, AustralianxHistoryy1945- 0aPaintingxThemes, motives. 0aPotteryy20th centuryzAustralia. 7aArtists.2lcsh1 aPalmer, Sheridan.4ivr0 tAustralian art from 1950 to the present oral history projectw(AuCNL)4668393 0aAustralian art from 1950 to the present oral history project.