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Clifton Ernest Pugh

Clifton Ernest Pugh (1924 - 1990) was active/lived in Australia.  Clifton Pugh is known for Expressionist painting, landscape and portraiture, printmaking.

Clifton Ernest Pugh AO, (17 December 1924 – 14 October 1990) was an Australian artist and three-time winner of Australia's Archibald Prize*. He was strongly influenced by German Expressionism*, and was known for his landscapes and portraiture.

Important early group exhibitions include The Antipodeans, the exhibition for which Bernard Smith drafted a manifesto in support of Australian figurative painting. Pugh was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1985 for service to Australian Art. In 1990 he was appointed as the Australian War Memorial's official artist at the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Gallipoli landing.

Pugh was born in Richmond, Victoria, one of three children to an English-born Thomas Owen Pugh, an assistant mechanical engineer, and Adeliade Violet Odgen (Cook). Both Pugh's parents were amateur painters, and as a young man during the 1940s, Pugh attended evening classes at the Swinburne Technical College to study cartoon drawing. Two years later   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5934 characters.]  Artist bio

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