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== Career ==
== Career ==
Returning to Melbourne in the 1950s, Green worked first as a graphic designer, then as an art teacher with the Victorian Education Department. He produced and exhibited ''trompe l'oeil'' paintings of plant forms and exhibited more successfully in the 1980s, including at [[Pinacotheca, Melbourne|Pinacotheca gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485103 |url-status=live |access-date=2021-08-22 |website=National Library of Australia}}</ref> His work was seen in ''The Face of Australia'', touring exhibition, 1988,<ref name=":1" /> and ''Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle'', a the National Gallery of Victoria in 1992<ref name=":0" />
From his residence at 21 Roland Gardens S.W.7. and with his wife Helen they returned to Melbourne in January 1952 aboard the ''Strathmore'',<ref>The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; ''BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists''; Reference Number: ''Series BT27-164521''</ref> Green worked first as a graphic designer, then as an art teacher with the Victorian Education Department. He produced and exhibited ''trompe l'oeil'' paintings of plant forms and exhibited more successfully in the 1980s, including at [[Pinacotheca, Melbourne|Pinacotheca gallery]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32485103 |url-status=live |access-date=2021-08-22 |website=National Library of Australia}}</ref> His work was seen in ''The Face of Australia'', touring exhibition, 1988,<ref name=":1" /> and ''Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle'', a the National Gallery of Victoria in 1992<ref name=":0" />


Late in his career, in the 1990s, Green lived in Castlemaine where he made coloured drawings of dead mistletoe.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=David M |title=Mistletoes of Southern Australia |last2=Hulley |first2=Robyn |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=9780643095939 |location=Collingwood, Vic. |language=en}}</ref>
Late in his career, in the 1990s, Green lived in Castlemaine where he made coloured drawings of dead mistletoe.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=David M |title=Mistletoes of Southern Australia |last2=Hulley |first2=Robyn |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=9780643095939 |location=Collingwood, Vic. |language=en}}</ref>

Revision as of 09:01, 31 August 2023

Douglas Allan Green  (1921, Ballarat– 2002) was an Australian graphic designer, artist and teacher

Early life and training

Born in Ballarat, Green's father was Bert H. L. Green.[1]

He was a commercial artist and student at the Melbourne Technical College, he showed paintings, including a work, described by Herald art critic Basil Burdett as a "fresh, honest water-colour sketch," in the third Heidelberg art exhibition in 1940.[2] He then enlisted at age twenty and was a sergeant in New Guinea and the Philippines with an Australian army survey unit during World War II.[3][1]

As a returned soldier,[4] the National Gallery school from 1944 to 1947, and concurrently at the George Bell School, 1946–7. He showed watercolour with the Victorian Artists Society, again noticed favourably by The Herald critic in 1946,[5] and 1947.[6]

His painting Second Class, showing the interior of a railway carriage incorporated portraits of fellow students John Brack, with whom he shared a studio on the corner of Bourke and Queen Streets,[7] Grahame King, Helen Maudsley and Fred Williams, won him the NGV Travelling Scholarship in 1947. [3] Hansen writes of it that while other artists were "representing white-collar workers as cocky and absurd automata, Douglas Green produced a more sympathetic vision of their tedious, fatiguing existence."[8] The work is held in the collection of Warrnambool Art Gallery.[9] He went to England where he attended the London County Council School of Arts and Craft.[10]

Career

From his residence at 21 Roland Gardens S.W.7. and with his wife Helen they returned to Melbourne in January 1952 aboard the Strathmore,[11] Green worked first as a graphic designer, then as an art teacher with the Victorian Education Department. He produced and exhibited trompe l'oeil paintings of plant forms and exhibited more successfully in the 1980s, including at Pinacotheca gallery.[12] His work was seen in The Face of Australia, touring exhibition, 1988,[8] and Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, a the National Gallery of Victoria in 1992[7]

Late in his career, in the 1990s, Green lived in Castlemaine where he made coloured drawings of dead mistletoe.[13]

Awards

  • NGV Travelling Scholarship, 1947

Collections

References

  1. ^ a b National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australia; Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947; Series: B883
  2. ^ "Art Exhibition At Heidelbera". Herald. 1940-10-05. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  3. ^ a b "Travelling Art Scholarship". Sydney Morning Herald. 1947-12-19. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  4. ^ "Douglas Green :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  5. ^ "Artists' Society Revives With A Show Which Reveals Promise". Herald. 1946-04-26. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  6. ^ "Art Show Lacks Major Works". The Herald. 1947-04-25. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  7. ^ a b St John Moore, Felicity; Bell, George (1992). Classical Modernism : The George Bell Circle. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. p. 113. ISBN 9780724101559. OCLC 27548944.
  8. ^ a b Hansen, David (1988). The Face of Australia: The Land & the People, the Past & the Present ; Australia 1788 - 1988. Sydney: Fine Arts Press. pp. 112–3, 183. ISBN 108961701471. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
  9. ^ a b "Second Class". Warrnambool Art Gallery. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  10. ^ McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The new McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (4th ed.). Fitzroy: AUS Art Editions ; The Miegunyah Press. p. 477. ISBN 9780522853179. OCLC 80568976.
  11. ^ The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-164521
  12. ^ "Pinacotheca (Melbourne, Vic.) : Australian Gallery File". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2021-08-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ Watson, David M; Hulley, Robyn (2011). Mistletoes of Southern Australia. Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 9780643095939.
  14. ^ "Douglas Green". Art Gallery of Ballarat.
  15. ^ Green, Doug (1951). "Etruscan Dancer Tarquinia". Castlemaine Art Museum Collection Online. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
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