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Nationality
  
Australian

Name
  
Ray Crooke

Role
  
Artist


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Full Name
  
Ray Austin Crooke

Born
  
12 July 1922 (
1922-07-12
)
Auburn, Victoria, Australia

Spouse(s)
  
June Bethel (m. 1951; d. 2013)

Awards
  
Archibald Prize1969 George Johnston

Died
  
December 5, 2015, Palm Cove, Queensland, Cairns, Australia

Artwork
  
Islanders in the Shade, Dawn, Papua, Islander Scene

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Ray Austin Crooke (12 July 1922 – 5 December 2015) was an Australian artist known for his landscapes. He won the Archibald Prize in 1969 with a portrait of George Johnston.

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Early life

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Ray Crooke was born in Auburn, Victoria in 1922. He spent time in Townsville, Cape York and other parts of northern Australia during World War II.

Career

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After the war, he enrolled in Art School at Swinburne University of Technology and later travelled to New Guinea, Tahiti and Fiji.

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His portrait of the novelist George Johnston won the Archibald Prize in 1969, and the University of Queensland owns three of Ray Crooke's portrait paintings: Portrait of Xavier Herbert (1977), Portrait of Professor Emeritus Sir Zelman Cowen, (1919–2011), Vice-Chancellor 1970–1977 (1977) and Portrait of Sadie Herbert (1980). However, he is not known usually for portrait painting. He is known for serene views of Islander people and ocean landscapes, many of which are based on the art of Paul Gauguin. He was responsible for the dust-jacket for Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert.

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His painting The Offering (1971) is in the Vatican Museum collection. Many of his works are in Australian galleries.

"North of Capricorn" was an Australian touring retrospective exhibition in 1997 organised by the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville), initiated and curated by Grafico Topico's writer and curator Sue Smith.

He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1993 Australia Day Honours, "in recognition of service to the arts, particularly as a landscape artist".

Crooke died on 5 December 2015 at the age of 93.

References

Ray Crooke Wikipedia


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