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George Bernard Duncan

George Bernard Duncan (1904 - 1974) was active/lived in New Zealand.  George Duncan is known for Painting, camouflage.

George Bernard Duncan (7 January 1904 - 8 May 1974) was an Australian painter born in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

He studied around 1925 under Dattilo Rubbo at the Royal Art Society. It was here he met Alison Rehfisch and they began sharing studio space. She left her husband and she and Duncan met up in London in 1934, where they studied, worked and travelled, including a 3-month stay in Spain. He spent the war years as a camouflage artist, returning to Sydney in 1942 to marry Alison, her husband having died in 1938.

In 1947 their home burned down and Alison lost several hundred paintings. Friends arranged an auction at the home of Desiderius Orban. George and Alison moved to the country and took to painting landscapes around Berrima, Moss Vale and Goulburn but returned to Sydney when he secured a position as director of David Jones Art Gallery, which he held from 1953 to 1964.

They bought a house "Hillgrove" in Pymble which she decora  Artist bio

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