Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen received Archibald Prize, Victorian Honour Roll of Women and Member of the Order of Australia. Work by Nora Heysen is held by National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Australia and Australian War Memorial.

27 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service. Their recorded dates run from 1930 to 1973.

Petunias, dated 1930, held by Art Gallery of New South Wales, inventory 828. Self portrait, dated 1932, held by Art Gallery of New South Wales, inventory 943. Corn cobs, dated 1938, held by Art Gallery of New South Wales, inventory 485.1987. Spring flowers, dated 1938, held by Art Gallery of New South Wales, inventory 6603. Sir Lionel Lindsay, dated 1941, held by Art Gallery of New South Wales, inventory 7333. Flinders Street Station no. 2, held by National Gallery of Victoria, inventory 2006.58. A bunch of flowers, dated 1930, held by National Gallery of Victoria, inventory 2005.255. The faun, dated 1933, held by National Gallery of Victoria, inventory 2002.139. Portrait study, dated 1933, held by National Gallery of Victoria, inventory 2001.48. Mme Elink Schuurman, dated 1938. Ruth, dated 1933, held by National Gallery of Australia, inventory NGA 2002.297. Self-portrait, dated 1932, held by National Gallery of Australia, inventory NGA 2010.923. London breakfast, dated 1935, held by National Gallery of Australia, inventory NGA 96.1046. AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson), dated 1944, held by Australian War Memorial, inventory ART22822. Down and out in London, dated 1937, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 944P4. Fruit in a yellow bowl, dated 1930, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 20093P12. Pink roses, dated 1933, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 20202P8. Scabious, dated 1930, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 0.811. (Self-portrait), dated 1953, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 200110P24. Spring flowers from the bush, dated 1931, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 20093P13. The red cabbage, dated 1933, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 20093P14. Tomatoes, dated 1939, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 986P50. White Cacti, dated 1941, held by Art Gallery of South Australia, inventory 0.1189. Hardtmuth 'Hottie' Lahm, dated 1973, held by National Portrait Gallery, inventory 2015.113. Robert H. Black MD, dated 1950, held by National Portrait Gallery, inventory 1999.51. Coming Out of Chapel, Liverpool Blue Coat School, dated 1948, held by The Blue Coat School, inventory PCF10. Dorothy James, Barbara Murray and Marion Lloyd, Young Ladies of the Liverpool Blue Coat School, dated 1948, held by The Blue Coat School, inventory PCF11.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 7 named public collections.

Art Gallery of South Australia: 12 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Art Gallery of New South Wales: 5 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. National Gallery of Victoria: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. National Gallery of Australia: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. National Portrait Gallery: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Blue Coat School: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Australian War Memorial: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Nora Heysen: A Life of Her Own, Nora Heysen: A Life of Her Own, 1990. Heysen, Nora, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2013. Friday essay: Nora Heysen, more than her father’s daughter, 2019. Anne-Louise Willoughby, Nora Heysen: A Portrait, Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal, 2020. The war on malaria and Nora Heysen's documentation of Australian medical research through art between 1943 and 1945., Med J Aust.

3 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Open Library.

Nora Heysen (2 catalogued editions) (2019) — Open Library. Nora Heysen (1989) — Open Library. Hans and Nora Heysen (2019) — Open Library.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 11 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)) and 1 biomedical publications indexed (PubMed (National Library of Medicine)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 21 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Nora Heysen studied at Julian Ashton Art School.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait.

Work by Nora Heysen is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Australia, Australian War Memorial and Art Gallery of South Australia.

Distinctions recorded are Archibald Prize, Victorian Honour Roll of Women and Member of the Order of Australia.