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Arthur Merric Boyd (19 March 1862 – 30 July 1940) was an Australian painter. He and his wife Emma Minnie (née à Beckett) established a lifestyle of being artists, which many generations followed to create the popular image of the Boyd family.
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both.
May 10, 2024 · Arthur Boyd was an Australian painter and ceramic pottery maker. His best-known works included impressionistic paintings of the Australian bush, or countryside, and expressionistic depictions of the maimed and dispossessed.
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Apr 24, 1999 · A man of strong moral conviction, his most important paintings conveyed his deep concern for humanitarian matters and Australia's natural environment; themes he often brought together in a single canvas.
- Australian
- July 24, 1920
- Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia
- April 24, 1999
Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), artist, was the father of William Merric Boyd (1888-1959), potter, and Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890-1923), artist.
Sep 1, 2021 · Boyd’s artistic dynasty started with Arthur Merric Boyd Snr and his wife, Emma Minnie à Beckett. Son of a captain, John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Arthur and his family moved to Australia in the mid-1870s from New Zealand.
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Apr 24, 1999 · Arthur Boyd was a painter, potter and printmaker from a family of artists. Boyd aimed to convey an inner emotional vision through his work, rather than describing the external world. He painted lyrical and emotive allegories on universal themes of love, loss and shame, often located in the Australian bush.
