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- Record ID:
- 35142995 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
- Authority type:
- Name.
- Description conventions:
- rda
- Heading:
- Birth:
- 19120604te
- Footscray (Vic.)
- Death:
- 20030726
- Melbourne (Vic.)
- Associated with:
- Australia
- Fields of activity:
- Portrait painting
- Occupations:
- Painters War artists
- Used for:
- Dargie, William Alexander, Sir, 1912-2003
- Dargie, William Alexander, 1912-2003
- Notes:
- Born at Footscray, Victoria; married Kathleen Clara Howitt in 1937; keen tennis player; served with the Australian Army in the Middle East, New Guinea , India and Burma; won first of eight Archibald prizes while digging a trench in Tobruk, Libya; painted official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 1954; appointed OBE in 1960; promoted to CBE in 1969; knighted in 1970; received the Centenary Medal in 2001; died 2003 aged 91.
- William Dargie interviewed by James Gleeson for the National Gallery of Australia collection, November 1978
- WWW wikepedia, 14/11/2016https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dargie
- Wikipedia website viewed on 11 May 2021 (Captain Sir William Alexander Dargie CBE (4 June 1912 – 26 July 2003) was a renowned Australian painter, known especially for his portrait paintings. He won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on eight separate occasions; a record held since 1952. Dargie was an official Australian war artist during World War II and painted multiple portraits of Queen Elizabeth II as well as the official portraits of two Prime Ministers of Australia and two Governors-General of Australia. His portrait of Sir Robert Menzies was the front cover of the April 1960 edition of Time Magazine. Dargie painted in a conservative style and is now largely forgotten despite his substantial artistic achievements)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dargie
- Local system number:
- (AuCNL)174418
- 000000143737
- abv02089990
- (VSL)1541206
- Cataloguing source:
- AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
- Authentication code:
- anuc