Janet Dawson

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Janet Dawson (born 1935) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1973 with a portrait of Michael Boddy.

She studied at the Gallery School in Melbourne from 1952 to 1956. She was then awarded a Travelling Scholarship to London and went with another scholarship to Italy, later to Paris, returning to Australia in 1961. She exhibited at an exhibition of contemporary Australian painting in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1966.

She moved to Binalong in 1974.

She received an Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board grant in 1985.

External links

NGV painting education kit
Rollascape - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
Artcyclopedia
Biography

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Preceded by Clifton Pugh	Archibald Prize 1973 for Michael Boddy	Succeeded by Sam Fullbrook

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Name	Dawson, Janet
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Short description	Australian artist
Date of birth	1935
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