Artist: Arthur Boyd

1920 Born Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd in Melbourne, Australia.
1934 Studied painting at the National Gallery School, Victoria.
1935 Began selling his pictures.
1937 First one man show at Westminister Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1941 Conscripted into the Australian Army. Participating member of the "Angry Penguins".
1943 Met Yvonne Lennie - they were married in March, 1945.
1948 First major commission, Murals at the Grange, Harkaway; from the beginning of this commission he became entirely reliant for his livelihood on his art.
1949 Exhibited at Koziminsky Galleries, Melbourne, Australia.
1950 Began working on his now renowned Wimmera series.
1950-53 Worked on his now famous ceramic paintings on tiles
1955 Granted major public commission constructed for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia
1957 Began working on the famous Bride series, which revolved around the theme of the half-cast Aborigine and his white bride
1960 Brides series exhibition, Zwemmer Gallery, London, England

Following the Zwemmer exhibition Arthur Boyd gained international recognition for his art. He is considered by many important art historians as one of the most important Australian artists of the twentieth century. He has since that time had hundreds of exhibitions and his works are highly sort after by both important private and public collections throughout the world.

He has received the unprecedented grand honour of three retrospectives of his art in his lifetime in Australia. His major retrospective of 1994 travelled throughout Australia. In 1995 he was awarded the honour of Australian of the year.