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          Ivor Hele

          Australian artist

          Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 – 1 December 1993)[1] was an Australian artist noted for portraiture.

          Ivor Henry Thomas Hele ( - ) was active/lived in Australia.

        1. Ivor Hele, a child prodigy, was an academically trained figurative artist who excelled at portraiture.
        2. Ivor Henry Thomas Hele has 3 artist signature examples available in our database.
        3. Ivor Hele is one of those great draftsman that you probably never heard of An Aussie that served in the war and chronicled daily drudge.
        4. When Australia sent troops to.

          5. He was Australia's longest serving war artist[2] and completed more commissioned works than anyone else in the history of Australian art.

          Biography

          Hele was born in Edwardstown, South Australia, the youngest of four children of Arthur Hele and his wife Ethel May Hele, née Thomas, later moving to 13 Brown Street (now part of Morphett Street), Adelaide.

          He attended Westbourne Park Primary School for a short time, then Prince Alfred College, where at age eight he began art classes under James Ashton, the drawing master.[3] In 1923 his painting "The Bedouin" was a prize winner at a London exhibition.[4] In 1924 he started studies at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under Miss M.

          Kelly and completed his first year with honours.[3] He was awarded three first class cer