HOOD, KENNETH (1928-2002)

"Still Life" (1956)
oil on board
59 x 81.5cm
signed lower left
*private collection, Sydney
 
Hood was a respected Australian Post-War painter & Gallery curator. He studied at the Royal Melbourne Technical College before travelling to England and Europe. A painter of still life and interiors, he ceased exhibiting after being appointed assistant curator at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1961. In 1967 he was awarded a Churchill Scholarship. He authored several books on pottery which he collected, and he bequeathed his collection to the McClelland Gallery when he died in 2002.