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Nationality
  
Australian

Name
  
John Vickery

Role
  
Artist


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Born
  
1906
Bunyip, Victoria, Australia

Known for
  
Painting Illustration Advertising design

Died
  
1983, Califon, New Jersey, United States

Alma mater
  
National Gallery of Victoria Art School

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John Vickery (1906-1983) was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Australian artist to have been a part of the New York School.

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Life and work

Vickery was born in Bunyip, Victoria in Australia in 1906. He relocated to New York, New York in the United States in 1936. He was colleagues with Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning.

He died in Califon, New Jersey in 1983.

Notable collections

  • Halo, 1970, synthetic polymer paint on composition board; in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  • References

    John Vickery (artist) Wikipedia