Thomas Dean 'The Harpist' mexican artists (c) David Larwill / Copyright

(c) David Larwill / Copyright Agency

titled and editioned in margin

Condition: As New

the fleetingness of life and beauty

Gail ENGLISH (1939 - )

Thomas Dean 'The Harpist' mexican artists (c) David Larwill / CopyrightThomas Dean came to Australia on the Commonwealth, a colonial vessel making the voyage from England to Sydney. Like many artists before him, he started life in Australia as labourer or more specifically a railway fettler. Travelling across New South Wales, Dean started taking and developing photographs which later led to an interest in painting after he befriended an itinerant painter. Despite railway fettling consuming most of his time, Dean