Jump to content

Herbert Badham: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
GHSydney (talk | contribs)
Added 2 citations referring to Badham's exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery.
GHSydney (talk | contribs)
Added the heading 'Gallery holdings' with details and links to galleries across Australia.
Line 63: Line 63:
*''The vegetable shop'' (1950).<ref name="artgalleryballarat"/>
*''The vegetable shop'' (1950).<ref name="artgalleryballarat"/>
*''Domesticity'' (1959).<ref>[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22083/lot/1/ Bonhams: Domesticity, 1959]</ref>
*''Domesticity'' (1959).<ref>[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22083/lot/1/ Bonhams: Domesticity, 1959]</ref>

== Gallery holdings ==
National, State, and regional galleries across Australia holds works by Herbert Badham.

* The National Gallery of Australia holds two works including [https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object?uniqueId=43112 The ferry] 1943.
* The Art Gallery of N.S.W. holds two works including [https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/OA22.1965/ Self portrait], (early 1920s)
* The State Library of N.S.W. holds nine works including [https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wNrZpxn/jpmQVMyK0lrBa Hazy morning] 1944.
* The National Gallery of Victoria holds two works including [https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/89880/ The night bus] 1943.
* The National Portrait Gallery hold [https://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/1999.3/self-portrait-with-glove Self portrait with glove] 1939.
* The New England Regional Art Museum hold [https://www.hinton.neram.com.au/hyde-park Hyde Park] 1933.
* The Australian War Memorial hold [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C167904 The fair ground, Sydney] 1944.


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 07:07, 29 July 2022

Herbert Badham
Self portrait sketch
Born1899
Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Died1961
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
EducationJulian Ashton Art School
Occupation(s)Painter; art teacher
SpouseEnid Wilson
Children1 daughter

Herbert Edward Badham (1899-1961) was an Australian realist painter and art teacher.

Biography

Early life

Herbert Badham was born in 1899 in Watsons Bay, a suburb of Sydney, Australia to Herbert Lewis Badham (c1870-1937) and his wife Mary.[1][2][3][4][5] He was one of five children in the family. He enlisted in the Australian Royal Navy in 1917 to serve in the First World War.[1] From 1925 to 1938, he studied painting at the Julian Ashton Art School, where he was tutored by Julian Ashton, George Washington Lambert and Henry Gibbons.[1][2][3][5]

Career

He was a realist painter, and focused on paintings scenes of everyday life.[6] His work was exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1927 to his death.[5] Later, in 1939, his first solo exhibition took place at the Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney.[1] A review of the exhibition described a collection of portraits in pencil and a series of oils. Of particular note, the work 'Travellers' was described as "bustling plebian."[7] In a similar vein, another review praised Badham's ability to paint "aspects of Sydney life which few painters have the courage to tackle."[8]

Badham taught painting at the East Sydney Technical College from 1938 to 1961.[1][4] He published two books about Australian art.[1][3][5][9]

By April 1950 he was living at Darling Point Rd, Darling Point.[10] He married dressmaker Enid Wilson in Sydney in 1927.[11] Their daughter, Chebi Badham, became an artist and animator.[12]

Currently, two of his paintings are exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.[13] Another painting is found at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Ballarat.[4] Another painting is exhibited at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.[6]

Death

He died in 1961.[2]

Works

Paintings by Badham include:

  • Self-portrait (early 1920s).[14]
  • Travellers (1933).[1]
  • Breakfast piece (1936).[2]
  • The fairground, Sydney (1944).[6]
  • The vegetable shop (1950).[4]
  • Domesticity (1959).[15]

National, State, and regional galleries across Australia holds works by Herbert Badham.

Bibliography

  • Herbert Badham (1949), A Study of Australian Art (Sydney: Currawong Press).[5][9]
  • Herbert Badham (ed.) (1954), A Gallery of Australian Art (Sydney: Currawong Press).[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Bonhams: Herbert Badham (1899-1961) Travellers 1933
  2. ^ a b c d Herbert Badham: Breakfast piece, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  3. ^ a b c Herbert Badham, Canadian War Museum
  4. ^ a b c d Henry Badham: The vegetable shop, Art Gallery of Ballarat
  5. ^ a b c d e f Cbus: Herbert Badham 1899–1961
  6. ^ a b c The fairground, Sydney, 1944, Canadian War Museum
  7. ^ "Herbert Badham: interesting painter". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 May 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Badham's Art Is Sincere". The Sun (Sydney, N.S.W.). 25 May 1939. p. 38. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  9. ^ a b National Library of Australia: Herbert Badham
  10. ^ The Sun (Sydney) 16 April 1950, p.7
  11. ^ New South Wales registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages
  12. ^ State Library of New South Wales; Macquarie Street, Sydney (9 March 2018). "Domesticity". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 11 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Art Gallery of New South Wales: Works by Herbert Badham
  14. ^ Henry Badham: Self-portrait, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  15. ^ Bonhams: Domesticity, 1959