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Painting - Cattle Grazing, Helene Ilich, Oil, Framed, circa 1960s-1970s
Reg. No: HT 938
- Summary:
- Cattle Grazing by Helene Ilich, circa 1960s-1970s. Helen migrated to Melbourne from Croatia in 1953 with her two children, her husband already having arrived. She had always wanted to be an artist but rarely had the opportunity or parental support to pursue her passion. This continued in Australia but she found a degree of artistic outlet by working in three ceramic studios around Melbourne - Ellis, Isobel (a small independent business) and Guy Boyd's studio which she particularly enjoyed.
In the late 1960s she joined the Heidelberg District Artists' Society and also taught painting at her home. She eventually stopped teaching due to her husband's complaints about the smell, but recommenced after his death in 1992. She continued painting until about six years before her own death on 18 February 2002. - Description:
- Framed oil painting depicting cattle grazing in long yellow grass, there are small gum trees dotted throughout the pasture and a small house in the distance. In the distance low purple hills rise out of the grasslands.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mrs Nina Chelleri, 2002
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 45.50 cm (Height), 4.00 cm (Width), 59.50 cm (Length) |
More information
| Tagged with: | immigration, paintings, displaced persons, artistic practices, artists, croatian communities, croatian immigration |
| Themes this item is part of: | Helen Ilich, Serbian Migrant & Ceramic Artist, 1953, Immigration & Artistic Practice Collection, Migration Collection |
| Primary Classification: | CULTURAL IDENTITY |
| Secondary Classification: | Ethnicity - Creative Practice |
| Tertiary Classification: | paintings |
| Inscriptions: | Signed: H. Ilich. |
| Artist: | Helen Ilich, Victoria, Australia, circa 1960s-1970s It is possible this painting may have been done later in Helen's life after her husband passed away in the mid 1990s |
| Place Depicted: | Australia |
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