Although not sufficiently disorganized for my taste, the
closing stages of the inaugural national pictorial bird miniquiz, were
pleasantly confused. During this, some might have missed the answers to ‘who
painted this magpie’, a segment at which the distinguished litterateur,
Suzanne Edgar, and the knockabout but equally knowledgeable Noel Luff, did
particularly well.
1
Albert Tucker 1914-1999
2
Sydney Long 1871-1955 (born
and educated at Goulburn and better known for ‘Spirit of the Plains’,
the brolga painting)
3
The first fleet artist labeled ‘The
Port Jackson Painter’ (drawing on which the original scientific description
of the AM was based)
4
Sidney Nolan 1917-1992
5
John Gould and Henry Richter
6
Clifton Pugh 1924-1990 (this
one was on display at a recent exhibition at National Portrait Gallery)
