Frank Hinder

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The Australian artist Francis Henry Critchley Hinder was born in Sydney, NSW, in 1906. He attended Newington College and Sydney Church of England Grammar School and studied art under Antonio Dattilo Rubbo at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and at the East Sydney Technical College. He pursued his training at the Art Institute of Chicago, New York School of Fine and Applied Art, the Master Institute at Roerich Museum and at Taos summer school. In the mid 1930s he worked as a commercial artist in the United States and taught at the Child-Walker School of Fine Art, Boston, before returning to Sydney and working in theatre design, advertising and graphic art. Hinder served in the Camouflage Wing of the Royal Australian Engineers during World War II. At wars end he took a teaching position at the East Sydney Technical College and then became head of the Art Department of Sydney Teachers' College from 1958 to 1964. As an artist he is best known for his abstract paintings, yet he also produced work across a diverse range of materials, including drawings and electric-light sculptures. He was a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia. his work is held in many publice galleries including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Australian National Gallery, the Australian War Memorial and the National Gallery of Victoria. He died at the age of 86 in 1992 [1]