Ray Crooke

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Ray Austin Crooke (born July 12, 1922^[1]), is an Australian artist born in Auburn, Victoria. He won the Archibald Prize in 1969 with a portrait of George Johnston.

His painting The Offering (1971) is in the Vatican Museum collection. Many of his works are in Australian galleries. He is known for serene views of Islander people and ocean landscapes, many of which are based on the art of Gauguin. He spent time in Townsville, Cape York and other parts of northern Australia during the Second World War. Returning from the Second World War, he enrolled in Art School at Swinburne University of Technology and later travelled to New Guinea, Tahiti and Fiji. While a portrait of his won the Archibald Prize in 1969, he is not known usually for portrait painting. He has received an Order of Australia medal. "North of Capricorn" was an Australian touring retrospective exhibition in 1997 organised by the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville, Queensland, Australia) initiated and curated by Grafico Topico's writer and curator Sue Smith. Information about the exhibition and tour can be found at http://www.grafico-qld.com/content/ray-crooke

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References

↑ Dobson, Rosemary (1971). Focus on Ray Crooke. University of Queensland Press. p. 13. ISBN 0702207020.

Awards
Preceded by William Edwin Pidgeon	Archibald Prize 1969 for George Johnston	Succeeded by Eric Smith

Authority control	VIAF: 38996913 ISNI: 0000 0000 7894 3288

Persondata
Name	Crooke, Ray
Alternative names
Short description	Australian artist
Date of birth	July 12, 1922
Place of birth	Auburn, Victoria
Date of death
Place of death

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