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The Art of John Coburn
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John Coburn (1925-2006) Queensland born artist John Coburn is celebrated for his distinctive style of abstraction. Depicting the beauty of nature and the spirituality of landscape, Coburn has refined a subtle yet powerful symbolic language in the form of large-scale paintings and tapestries and vivid screenprints.
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He is perhaps best known for his designs of two large tapestries for the Sydney Opera House curtains, and a series of seven for the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Washington. He is represented in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; all state and regional galleries; and the Vatican Museum, Rome.
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John Coburn Curtain of the Sun, Sydney Opera House 1983
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THE CREATION SERIES
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John Coburn The Creation from the Book of Genesis 1977 The 1st Day: The Spirit of God brooded over the waters
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John Coburn The Creation from the Book of Genesis 1977 The 2nd Day: And God separated the light from the dark
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John Coburn Creation from the Book of Genesis: The 3rd Day 1977 God created the earth.
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John Coburn Creation from the Book of Genesis: The 4th Day 1977
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John Coburn The Creation from the Book of Genesis 1977 The 5th Day: God created the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and the beasts of the land
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John Coburn The Creation from the Book of Genesis 1977 The 6th Day: God created man
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John Coburn The Creation from the Book of Genesis 1977 The 7th Day: God rested
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John Coburn Resurrection 1988
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John Coburn Death and Transfiguration 1988
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John Coburn Hozanna 1988
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John Coburn Study for 'In the Beginning was the World' 1991 Mixed media on paper
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John Coburn Study for 'In the Beginning was the World' Mixed media on paper
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John Coburn The Expulsion 1988 Oil on canvas
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John Coburn In Praise of the Sun 1966 Oil on canvas
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The Tower 1958 Oil on board
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John Coburn Lamentation 1986 Oil on canvas
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John Coburn Study for Desert Landscape Mixed media on paper
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John Coburn Moon Dancer 1993 Acrylic and pencil on paper
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John Coburn Study for Uluru Mixed media on paper
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John Coburn Study for Tapestry 'Tree of Life' 1996 Mixed media on paper
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Study for Uluru, 2003 Gouache on paper
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John Coburn Plants in Moonlig ht 1972 Oil on canvas
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Ah What is a Man (That you should be so mindful of him?) 1987 Oil on canvas
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John Coburn Harbour 2002 Oil on canvas
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John Coburn Ancient Land 2001 Oil on canvas
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Night Tide 1961 Oil on board 103 x 90cm John Coburn ’ s Night Tide is a superb early 1960 ’ s painting by the late, great master of Australian abstraction. Completed in 1961, Night Tide is painted with thick textured paint mixed with sand and expresses Coburn ’ s interest in the spirit of nature. This painting was finished the year after John Coburn was awarded the Blake Prize for Religious Art and the same year he exhibited in the Helena Rubenstein Traveling Scholarship.
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John Coburn Orange Sun Oil on canvas on board
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Desert Night with Moon, 2003 Oil on canvas
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John Coburn Tribal Land 2003
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John Coburn Tree of Life 1988
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John Coburn Bright Day 1978
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John Coburn Flight of Birds 1978
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John Coburn Tree of Life 1981
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John Coburn Curtain of the Sun, Sydney Opera House 1983
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John Coburn White Bird in the Garden 1985
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John Coburn Paradise Garden 1988
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John Coburn Spring 1988
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John Coburn (b.1925) 1925 Born, Ingham, Queensland 1947-50 A.S.T.C Diploma Painting National Art School, East Sydney Technical College 1956-59 Graphic Designer for ABC 1959-68 Teacher, National Art School, Sydney and Canberra 1969-72 Lived in France, designed tapestries for Aubusson Workshops 1977 Travelled to New York, Washington and Paris 1977-80 Trustee, Art Gallery of NSW 1980 Order of Australia (A.M) 1985 Travelled to Moscow, St Petersburg, Paris and the south of France 1986 Travelled to Rome, Florence, Aubusson 1988 Travelled to Aubusson, Paris, London 1991 Honorary doctor literature James Cook University, Townsville 1991 Commissioned to design backdrop for World Council of Churches Assembly in Canberra 1993 – 94 Travelled to Hong Kong, Chianti, Florence, Sienna and Venice SOLO EXHIBITIONS Over 80 solo exhibitions since 1957 AWARDS 1959 Bathurst Art Prize 1960 Blake Prize for Religious Art 1962 Tamworth Prize 1963 Darcy Morris Memorial Prize 1963 Mirabooka Prize for Religious Art 1966 Maitland Art Prize 1977 Blake Prize for Religious Art(jointly with Rodney Milgate) 1994 Mandorla Art Award for Religious Art REPRESENTED Australian Public Collections National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Queensland Art Gallery, Brisabane National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney City of Ipswich Collection, Global Arts Link, Queensland Geelong Gallery, Victoria and many regional galleries throughout Australia Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane and many University collections throughout Australia International Public Collections Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna Vatican Museum, Rome
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