AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-1999
NSW: Arthur Boyd dies
SYDNEY, April 25 AAP - Renowned Australian artist Arthur Boyd has died at the age of 78.
Boyd, a former Australian of the Year whose work is represented in the National Gallery in
Canberra and all state collections, died peacefully yesterday.
He passed away in Melbourne's Mercy Private Hospital surrounded by his family.
Arrangements were being made for a private family funeral, ABC radio quoted from a family
statement.
Opposition leader Kim Beazley tonight paid tribute to the artist.
"Australia has lost a great artist and a great philanthropist," Mr Beazley said in a
statement.
"His art will live on through his work and through the Bundanon Trust - a gift to the
nation."
After leaving school at 14, Boyd exhibited early landscape paintings in Melbourne before
serving in the army from 1941 to 1944.
He exhibited with the Contemporary Art Society, ran pottery with his brother-in-law John
Perceval and devoted himself to painting from 1949.
In February, Boyd was admitted to Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital after suffering a heart
attack.
The Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre was opened in February at Bundanon, a residence
the couple bequeathed to the nation in 1993.
The Bundanon property offers living and working accommodation for artists.
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