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Oil on board
Image Size: 47x39cm
Frame Size: 63x54cm
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Born in Kew, Victoria 1878; Died 1966. Painter, draughtsman and teacher.

Studies: Melbourne, N.G.V. School; Melbourne (under George Coates); Paris (under  Jean Paul Laurens).

Appointed critic for the Melbourne Sun News Pictorial in 1923 and stayed for 17 years. Founded the Bell-Shore School which quickly became the centre of the modern art movement in Melbourne, early students included Drysdale, Herman and other well known painters. As an avant-garde leader Bell was instrumental in preventing the Australian Academy of Art from obtaining a Royal charter.

Awards: Crouch Prize, 1928; O.B.E conferred 1966.

Represented: Australian state and regional galleries.