Reynold Hart b. 1938

  • Artist (Painter)
One of the most celebrated of the Carrolup children artists who created work at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2009
Name
Reynold Hart
Birth date
1938
Death date
1981
Death place
Collie, WA
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • Pinjarra, WA
  • Collie, WA
Active Period
  • 1945- 1981
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
Yes
Heritage Country
  • Southwest region, WA
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

Reynold Hart, born 1938, was a Noongar artist and member of the Pinjarup and Kaniyang peoples of southwest Western Australia. Hart was taken to the Carrolup Native Settlement near Katanning when he was four years old, and was amongst the celebrated group of children artists who were encouraged to draw and paint their surroundings by teachers Noel and Lily White, the couple that managed the Carrolup School between 1945-51. Hart’s landscape paintings and pastels, along with those of other Carrolup children artists were exhibited and sold to wide acclaim in Australia, Europe and New Zealand in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Hart kept painting in his adult years. His works are in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and the Picker Gallery at Colgate University in New York. Hart passed away in Collie, Western Australia, in 1981.

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Writers:
Laura Fisher
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Noel White
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Lily White
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Revel Cooper
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
Lance Chadd
1954
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
Carrolup artist
associate of
Revel Cooper
1934
Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Performance Artist), Artist (Mixed Media Artist), Artist (Industrial / Product Designer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Parnell Dempster
1936
Artist (Painter)
Hart, Reynold: Fellow Carrolup artist, close friend. / Dempster, Parnell: Fellow Carrolup artist and close friend
associate of
Milton Jackson
1933
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Alan Kelly
1939
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
Carrolup child artist
relative of
Laurel Nannup
1943
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker)
Cousin. Deceased. Carrolup Child Painter.
Collections
Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago)
2006
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Katanning Arts Centre, Katanning & Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA
Took place during the Perth International Arts Festival.
South West Central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002
2003
Exhibition ()
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/x_southwestcentral.asp
Nyungar Landscapes - Aboriginal artists of the South-West: the heritage of Carrolup
1992
Exhibition ()
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/
Citations:
  • Stanton, J. E., (1992), Nyungar Landscapes, (Place: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA)
  • Durack, M. & Rutter, F., (1952), Child Artists of the Australian Bush, (Place: Australasian Publishing Co. in Association with G. Harrap, London, UK)
  • Pushman, T & Walley, R. S, (2006), Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago), (Place: Berndt Museum of Anthropology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA)
  • Croft, Brenda L (ed), (2003), South West Central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002, (Place: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA) http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au