Heysen to Heysen - Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen

Author(s): Catherine Speck (Editor)

Diaries, letters & journals

The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen, one of Australia's most recognised landscape painters. Letters between the two, however, reveal a different story. In 1934, when Nora first travelled to London to study art, she experienced her first time away from home and the first of many, often exotic places from where she would write home to Hahndorf, South Australia. The correspondence between Nora and Hans continued until his death in 1968. Theirs was a close and affectionate relationship, in which father and daughter shared a lifetime of thoughts about art and life, and a mutual respect and admiration for each other's work. 'Heysen to Heysen' is a showcase of letters between Nora and Hans Heysen from the collection of the National Library of Australia. Accompanied by carefully selected images and text by leading art historian Catherine Speck, the publication lifts the lid on a vista of Australian art.

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  • : 9781743056417
  • : Wakefield Press Pty, Limited
  • : Wakefield Press
  • : 0.65
  • : February 2019
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  • : Catherine Speck (Editor)
  • : Catherine Speck (Editor)
  • : 392
  • : 392
  • : 759.994
  • : 759.994
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 1904
  • : 1904
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback