Sam Fullbrook
Sam Fullbrook
Shearing Shed
Sam Fullbrook (1922–2004)
pastel on paper
39.5 x 28cm, frame size: 67.5 x 53.5cm
signed lower right
Provenance: Lawson - Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Quarterly Fine Art Auction, Sydney, 15/11/2012, Lot No. 20 - label attached
$1,750
enquire:
simon@ensemblefineart.com.au
0419 540 162
Sam Fullbrook was born in Sydney. He worked as a timber cutter in outback NSW before joining the AIF at 17 and served in the Middle East and New Guinea in World War II.
He discovered painting through the Army Adult Education program and after the war, in 1946, he enrolled in the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne, under a federal government retraining program. Among his contemporaries at the art school were John Brack, Clifton Pugh and Fred Williams.
Fullbrook exhibited widely and had solo shows in galleries in every Australian state. He won the Archibald Prize in 1974 with the painting Jockey Norman Stephens and the Wynne Prize in 1963 with Sandhills on the Darling, and shared the Wynne Prize the following year withTrees in a Landscape.
Fullbrook's works can be found in every major Australian museum, every state museum and in many regional gallery and university collections.