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Victor O'Connor was born on 21 December, 1918 in Australia, is an artist. Discover Victor O'Connor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?
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He and his siblings represented the third generation of his family to have been born in Australia. In the early decades of the 19th century his mother's ancestors had moved to Australia from County Down and neighboring County Armagh in Ireland and from Cornwall in England. During the same period, his father's forebears came from Dublin in Ireland and London in England (as can be seen from the birth, marriage and death records in state and national Public Record Offices and also accessible via commercial genealogy organizations such as Ancestry.com, FindMyPast and FamilySearch).
As at July 2018, the Australian Art Sales Directory lists the Australian museums holding works by Vic O'Connor as follows:
He continued to paint well into old age, until prevented by arthritis and failing eyesight. In September 2010 he was buried beside his wife Vera, in Dromana Cemetery, Arthur's Seat, Victoria.
It was in 1983 that he finally returned permanently to Victoria, settling in the seaside suburb of Dromana.
At that time, he decided to cease law practice and devote himself entirely to art; moving from Melbourne to Sydney. From 1973–1974 he and his family travelled extensively in England, Scotland and Europe, where he painted and exhibited.
In 1960 O'Connor was one of several Australian realist artists who, led by Noel Counihan, exhibited in Russia.
By the mid-1950s O'Connor was also gaining recognition as a landscape painter. The Age art critic praised his scenes for their "poetic warmth and feeling", and noted that they were "richly coloured ... and glow with an inner light".
In 1946, O'Connor, Bergner and Counihan held their first major exhibition, Three Realist Artists, 16–25 July 1946, at the Myer Art Gallery in Melbourne which attracted considerable notice and approval. During an interview with John Elder in 1998 O'Connor summed up their direction at the time: "The mainstream were painting yellow circles and black squares and we were painting the passing parade."
He was, at the same time, drawing, painting and exhibiting his work. In 1941, his talent was officially recognized by his peers - he was awarded first prize by the Contemporary Art Society, sharing the prize with Donald Friend. As Bernard Smith stated: "Tucker ... Counihan and O'Connor [were] the three major contributors of the exhibition".
Following in the footsteps of his eldest brother, Alfred Edward O'Connor, Vic O'Connor was accepted by Melbourne University to study law. He was successful and was awarded a Bachelor Degree of Law (LLB 1940 Law) as confirmed by the university (Alumni Administration Officer, Advancement Office, The University of Melbourne, 2018, personal communication, 12 July). After graduating, he practiced as a solicitor until the late 1950s.
From 1939–1945, he served with the Australian Army Reserve during the Second World War.
For several terms in 1939 he took Saturday afternoon art classes at the George Bell School, in Melbourne, but was mostly self-taught as an artist. However, the close associations formed there with other artists were enduring. Eagle and Minchin describe the atmosphere and character of Bell's school at the time:
During World War 2 (1939-1945) O'Connor enlisted in the Army Citizen Military Forces, rising to the rank of Sergeant; his younger brother, Norman Andrew, and his sister's husband, Sidney Henry William Mounsey, fought overseas. O'Connor's photograph appears in his military dossier on page 2, in National Australian Archives, World War 2 collection.
O'Connor's schooling took place at Lilydale Primary School and then at Melbourne High School which he left in 1935 (Melbourne High School Old Boys' Association, 2018, personal communication, 12 July).
His first wife was Ailsa Margaret Donaldson (1921–1980), an Australia painter and sculptor. They were married from 1942 to 1966, and had a son and a daughter.
As in other countries, the Great Depression caused severe, prolonged poverty in Australia in the late 1920s and 1930s. Vic O'Connor's father was already incapacitated by illness, and the general economic failure of the Depression deprived them of the income generated by their stall in the Queen Victoria Market. They moved to the countryside and survived by living the most simple life. As described by McDonnell "This era had a significant and life long effect on O’Connor who observed the hard work, the comradeship and the poverty".
His second wife was Vera Lilian Brown (nee Stanley) (1919–2004), with whom he had a daughter. They were married from c. 1966 to 2004.
Victor George O'Connor (21 December 1918 – 8 September 2010) was an Australian artist and an exponent of the principles of social realist art. From the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s his work embodied social and political comment on the conditions of working-class people and the structures of society that caused their suffering.
Victor George O'Connor was born in Melbourne, on 21 December 1918, to Bertie Edward O'Connor (1882–1951) and Ada Alice (nee Clear) (1879–1953).
His parents married on 20 Dec 1905, in Tarraville, Victoria, a once-flourishing country town, approximately 200 kilometres south east of Melbourne, which had been an important hub during the Victorian gold rush. The newly-weds did not remain in Tarraville - by the time of the birth of their first child, in 1906, they had relocated to the city. Vic (as he was usually known) was the fourth of their five children. He was born in 1918 in Preston, a northern suburb of Melbourne.