John Coburn Biography

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John Coburn Biography

COBURN studied at the National Art School. East Sydney Technical College, 1947
Appointed Trustee AGNSW,1976-80, Awarded Order of Australia.1980, honary doctor literature James Cook Townsville 1991

Since 1957 John Coburn has had over 60 one man exhibitions at many major Australian galleries and in New York. He has also taken part in the following selected group exhibitions.

1961 Sao Paulo Biennale;
Australian Painting, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1963 Australian Painting, Tate Gallery, London
1964 Australian Painting Today, Europe
1965 Young Australian Pointers, Japan
1970 Aubusson Tapestries, Galerie Gamier, Paris
1971 Australian Printmakers. South East Asia
1973 Joint exhibition of tapertries with Alexander Calder,
John Wanamaker's Gallery, Philadelphia
1977 Art Space, l'Orangerie de Versailles
1979 Joint exhibition of tapestries and screenprints
with Alun Leach Jones, India and New Zealand
1980 Contemporary Australian Printmakers, U.SA
1986 Tapisseries d’Aubusson Contemporaines. Galerie Pinton, Paris

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Australian National Gallery. Canberra; Vatican Museum, Rome; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia; Western Australian Art Gallery; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Northern Territory Museum and An Gallery; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery; Wollongong City Art Gallery; Tamworth Art Gallery; Bathurst Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville; Toowoomba Art Gallery; Bendigo Art Gallery, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington; Sydney Opera House.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Most general texts on Australian art Sandra, McGrath and John Olsen, the artist and the
Desert, Bay Books, Sydney, 1981.Elwyn Lynn, Contemporary Drawing, Longman,
Melbourne, 1963, Terry Martin, Masterpieces of Australian Painting, Bay Books, Sydney;
longman, Melbourne, 1967. Allen Rozen, The Art of John Coburn, Hamlyn, Sydney. 1980
Nadine Amadio, John Coburn: Paintings, Craftsman House, 1988.