Carlton
Nada Hunter
1918-2005
Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Studio
28 February - 19 March 2010
NADA HUNTER was well known in artistic circles, especially through the Victorian Artists’ Society to whom she left several legacies for the benefit of artists.
Born in Donald in 1918 but spent most of her life in Camberwell an inner suburb of Melbourne.
Studied for a year at the Teachers College, University of Melbourne, Joined the WAAF at the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. She was engaged as an intelligence analyst throughout SE Asia. She continued in this highly secretive work after the war in Intelligence Signals and Communications based at Albert Park.
But, during this time, the spy did come in from the cold and studied under the then highly regarded but rather solemn Tasmanian painter Jack Carington-Smith. That training was augmented by a stint in Paris 1948-52 and 1955-56 at Ecole Chaumiere, Atelier Libre and Acedemie Julien where she attended a studio every morning and learnt techniques developed by the post impressionist artists which can be seen particularly in her brilliantly colourful floral works.
Nada’s paintings are full of spontaneity and her joyous high keyed palate places her firmly in the modernist movement. She was a regular exhibitor with the Victorian Artists' Society from 1952 and member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors since 1982. Solo exhibitions included Latrobe University Staff Club, 1975 & Kosminsky Galleries (no date). For more information refer More Than Just Gum Trees by Juliet Peers, published by MSWPS 1993.
We are grateful to Bill Harding, past president of the Victorian Artists' Society and friend of Nada's, who opened the exhibition and enlightened us a little about this reclusive painter.
Nada Hunter
Woman with a Parasol, Venice c1957
Gouache on tinted paper
36.5 x 27.5 cm
Sold
Nada Hunter
Noon, Hydra, Greece
Oil on board
60.5 x 45.5 cm
$1,250
Nada Hunter
Perth from Applecross c1960
Wax crayon and watercolour
27 x 37.5 cm
$850
Nada Hunter
Rottnest Island W.A. c1960
Watercolour
27 x 37 cm
$700
Nada Hunter
Wildflowers, Mallacoota c1960
Wax crayon and watercolour
32 x 25.5 cm
$600
Nada Hunter
Still Life with Flowers in a Jug
Oil on board
76 x 61 cm
$2,000
Nada Hunter
Spring Flower-piece
Oil on board
76 x 61 cm
Signed
$2,000
Nada Hunter
Still Life with Arum Lilies
Oil on canvas laid on board
71 x 55.5 cm
$1,850
Nada Hunter
Still Life with Pumpkins and Lilies
Oil on board
61 x 45.5 cm
$1,650
Nada Hunter
Spring Flowers, 1988
Watercolour
56 x 76 cm
$1,100
Nada Hunter
Still Life with Marigolds and a Bowl of Pears
Watercolour
53 x 56 cm
$950
Nada Hunter
Studio Nude
Oil on board
41 x 51 cm
$1,450
Nada Hunter
The Orange Hat
Oil on board
76 x 61cm
Nada Hunter
Alison
Oil on board
76 x 61 cm
$1,650
Nada Hunter
Annie
Oil on board
61 x 45.5 cm
$1,650
Nada Hunter
Ballerina
Oil on board
76 x 61 cm
Nada Hunter
Life Class
Watercolour
50 x 36.5 cm
$775
Nada Hunter
Landscape, Flinders Ranges
Oil on board
60.5 x 90 cm
$1,850
Nada Hunter
The Apostles, Port Campbell
Oil on board
61 x 76 cm
$1,450
Nada Hunter
Wilson’s Prom Landscape
Oil on board
58.5 x 74.5 cm
$1,250
Nada Hunter
Seascape, Inverloch
Oil on board
43 x 68 cm
$950
Nada Hunter
Central Australian Landscape
Oil on canvas laid on board
40.5 x 51 cm
$950
Nada Hunter
Narrabeen Lake, NSW
Oil on board
30.5 x 40.5 cm
Nada Hunter
Sailing Boats, Albert Park
Oil on board
30.5 x 40.5 cm
$750
Nada Hunter
Siamese Cats c1962
Screenprint
24 x 34 cm
$550
Nada Hunter
Penguin Parade c1962
Linocut on Japanese paper
35 x 29 cm
$600
