John Ogburn
John Armstrong Ogburn | |
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| Born | 4 June 1925 St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 13 January 2010 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | painter |
John Armstrong Ogburn (4 June 1925 – 13 January 2010) was an Australian painter.
Biography
Born in
Following his first one-man exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in 1953, Ogburn sailed to Europe, hitch-hiking, working, and studying in museums and galleries. On returning in 1957, he conducted an art teaching studio in Sydney, and was Vice President of the Contemporary Art Society from 1957 to 1962.
In 1963 he opened the John Ogburn Studio of painting and drawing in Lower George Street Sydney, moving to Harrington Street, The Rocks, New South Wales, in 1972. In 1973 he founded the Harrington Street Artists' Co-operative Gallery, where he held a one-man exhibition annually, until his final exhibition in October 2009, a few months before his death.
Although not widely known in Australia, John Ogburn received acclaim and admiration from art critics such as Clement Greenberg who wrote, "I gathered that he wasn’t widely accepted in Australia – because he wasn’t 'new' enough, 'far out' enough. You Australians may be as benighted as we Americans are."[2]
References
- ^ Max Germaine (1979). Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand. Lansdowne Editions. p. 419.
- ^ Mark McGinness (9 February 2010). "Portrait of the critic in the artist". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023.
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