Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd

Date of birth
1920
Date of death
1999
Notes
Arthur Merric Bloomfiled Boyd, AC OBE, was a figurative expressionist painter, ceramicist and printmaker and is considered one of Australia’s most significant modern artists. Boyd was born in 1920, and was taught by his parents and by his grandfather, prominent painter Arthur Merric Boyd and later attended night classes at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1942, Boyd was conscripted into the Cartographic Unit of the army in the Second World War. Though not seeing active service, his experiences influenced the subsequent themes of psychological anguish and suffering in his work. Following the war he became friends with art patrons John and Sunday Reid and set up the Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery Workshop in Victoria. Boyd and his family lived and exhibited in London during the 1960s. He returned to Australia in the 1970s and lived at properties in Shoalhaven and Bundanon, areas which he painted until his death in 1999. A major retrospective of his work was held in 1993 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Boyd received an Order of Australia in 1979 and Companion of the Order of Australia in 1992. In 1993 Boyd and his wife Yvonne gifted their 1100 hectare property Bundanon on the Shoalhaver River, NSW, to the Australian people. Source: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/boyd-arthur/

Works in the collection

Image of Woman chucking
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus with skull and flowers
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus, kookaburra and skull in brown
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus, bee and skull
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus and the Shoalhaven River
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus and bird
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus, skull and webbed bird
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Diving Narcissus
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Shoalhaven bush
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Shoalhaven sepia
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Sheoak reflected
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus in a storm
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Head of Narcissus and skull
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Crow reflected
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus and pool
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Tattooed Narcissus and skull
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Portrait and skull
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Narcissus reading with dog
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Skull, fish and flower
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd
Image of Leaning Narcissus
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd