William Hardy Wilson b. 14 February 1881

Also known as Hardy Wilson, Billy Wilson
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Significant Sydney based interwar architect, artist, author, orientalist and futurist.
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As well as being an important interwar period architect, Hardy Wilson was an artist who produced many paintings and drawings which often featured buildings and imagined landscapes. His first architectural commission was Meryon, a Sydney house built for artist and critic Lionel Lindsay. His best known commission was Eryldene a house built for Professor E.G. Waterhouse, a linguist and trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, in Gordon, Sydney.

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2009
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2011

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Related collections
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • 'Eryldene', Gordon, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • 'Eryldene', Gordon, Sydney, NSW (collected in)