- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0596
Heysen, Nora
- AM
- Married name Black, Nora
- Born 11 January 1911, Hahndorf, South Australia, Australia
- Died 30 December 2003, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation Artist
Summary
The daughter of South Australian landscape painter Sir Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald portrait prize (1938) and the first women to be appointed as an Australian war artist on 12 October 1943. During her service Heysen completed over 170 works of art. Following the war she travelled to England and in January 1953 married Dr Robert Black, who was to become the Head of Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney. On 26 January 1998 Nora Heysen was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to art as a painter of portraits and still life subjects.
Events
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Archival resources
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- National Library of Australia
- National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
Digital resources
- Title: Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Best
- Type: Image
- Description: Painting by Nora Heysen
- Date: 3 May, 2023
- Title: Group Officer Clare Stevenson
- Type: Image
- Date: 3 May, 2023
- Title: Lieutenant-Colonel May Douglas
- Type: Image
- Date: 3 May, 2023
- Title: IMP0063ga.jpg
- Type: Image
- Date: 3 May, 2023
- Title: AWE0413ga.jpg
- Type: Image
- Date: 3 May, 2023
- Title: 176103.tif
- Type: Image
- Description: 176103.tif
- Date: 3 May, 2023
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Heysen, Nora (1911-2003), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-542579
- Nora Heysen, National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/noraheysen/index.html
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Resource Section
- HEYSEN, NORA, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=498934
- Book
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Newspaper Article
- In 1938, the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, Pearce, Barry, 2004
- A cautious gaze, Meagher, David, 2000
- A remarkable artist, Barron, Sonia, 2000
- Visions of life in belated focus, O'Brien, Philip, 2000
- Painting of the week no. 10: Portrait Study (1933), Nora Heysen (born 1911), Lancashire, Rebecca, 2002
- Nora Heysen's back to paint memory lane, McDonald, Patrick, 2003
- Noted artist Nora Heysen dies at 92, Safe, Georgina, 2003
- Painter made her own mark, Klepac, Lou, 2004
- Her voyage was lit by a father's fire, 2004
- Trailblazer, Williams, Nadine, 2004
- Sound recording
- Thesis
- Journal Article