Australian Art is one of those subjects that most of us would
like to know more about… and if you don’t want to know more about it, you wont
be interested in this book… In this the
age of the information superhighway, it’s easy to find out about nearly everything
and everybody... except, it would seem, Jean Appleton. What sort of world is it when a reputable Australian
artist such as Jean, with works in some of the major Australian Galleries, such
as the Art Gallery of NSW, doesn’t get a mention in the fount of all knowledge*? She does get a brief mention in the
Australian Dictionary of Biography under the bios of William Dobell and Arthur James Murch, but
that’s about it. Google leads me to an
art dealer website that does have a brief bio which quotes the book that I’m
writing about here, and that’s pretty much all there is.
Despite being disappointed with the www, it’s sort of nice to know that
not everything is on the internet. Sometimes
a book is the answer. So who was Jean
Appleton?
*Wikipedia
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