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Sam fullbrook biography
Sam Fullbrook
Australian artist (1922–2004)
Sam Fullbrook (14 April 1922 – 3 February 2004[1]) was an Australian artist who was a winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture and the Wynne Prize for landscape.
He was described as "last of the bushman painters"[2] (a rural art tradition). However Fullbrook was fine art-trained and his sophisticated works are in every State art museum in Australia and international collections.
Early life
Fullbrook was born Samuel Sydney, named after his father, Joseph Henry Sydney, but later used his mother's maiden name of Fullbrook.
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He was born in the inner city suburb of Chippendale in Sydney in 1922.
From 1937 he worked as a timber cutter in Gloucester, New South Wales. He served in the Australian army and worked in manual jobs before discovering his bent for art.
After the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted with the Australian Infantry Forces in 1940 and the following year was posted in Palestine but di