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C. Dudley Wood began his career by studying art, design and composition at Swinburne Technical College in the early twenties and then at night classes at Swinburne and the Victorian Artists Society. He started exhibiting works in a variety of styles in the Depression years, while at the same time rapidly becoming one of the country's foremost commercial artists. His ability to capture both the form and the atmosphere of any subject established him as a superb water-colourist and oil painter by the end of the 1940's. He was not only drawn to depicting the beauty of the Australian wilderness, but also undertook a wide variety of industrial commissions, travelling from Newcastle to Wittenoom, from Hobart to Whyalla, to illustrate Australia's post-war reconstruction. Later , in the 1960's, he became fascinated by Australia's Red Centre and it's Aboriginal inhabitants. "This survey of the works of Dudley Wood fills an important gap in the history of Australian Art, a period in which fine artists of the calibre of Dudley Wood turned, for mere financial survival to the practice of commercial art.... Like all true artists, Wood continuously experimented with his materials, culminating in the diluted or transparent oil medium he used to striking effect in capturing the radiant colours of the Outback" Sir William Dargie (one of Wood's contemporaries and well known Australian portrait painter.)

C. Dudley Wood remained firmly in the traditional school of Australian landscape artists. He resisted the turmoil and controversy of contemporary art developments and continued to paint for the enjoyment of a large and loyal following. He built a career based upon the taste and ambitions of the generation which had built a prosperous and comfortable society under the leadership of Sir Robert Menzies. A generation which had experienced the depression and the war, sought an art which comforted, delighted and reassured. One among the generation which includes such notables as Nolan, the Boyds, Drysdale, Rees, Kahan and Dargie, Dudley Wood did not scale their heights of fame and public attention. Nevertheless, despite his distain for publicity, he produced a body of work marked by dedication, skill and an enormous range of both subject matter and technique, in a career spanning almost fifty years.

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Twelve Apostles 1946 watercolour 34x43	Hilltop c1964 watercolour 31x37