Ivor Hele

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Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 - 2 December 1993) was an Australian artist. He was the longest serving war artist for the Australian War Memorial and completed more commissioned works than any other Australian artist in the history of Australian art.

He was the first war artist appointed in the Second World War, and he served in New Guinea and North Africa. He was also a war artist in the Korean War.

He won Australia's most prestigious portrait prize, the Archibald Prize five times, for these works in the following years:

• 1951 - Laurie Thomas
• 1953 - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS
• 1954 - Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP
• 1955 - Robert Campbell Esq
• 1957 - Self Portrait

He painted a portrait of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser which is hanging in the New Parliament House in Canberra

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• Heroic Figure
• The Productive Artist

Awards
Preceded by William Dargie	Archibald Prize 1951 for Laurie Thomas	Succeeded by William Dargie
Preceded by William Dargie	Archibald Prize 1953 for Sir Henry Simpson Newland, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.S., F.R.C.S. 1954 for Rt. Hon. R. G. Menzies, P.C., C.H., Q.C., M.P. 1955 for Robert Campbell Esq.	Succeeded by William Dargie
Preceded by William Dargie	Archibald Prize 1957 for Self Portrait	Succeeded by William Pidgeon