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Russell Drysdale Russell Drysdale arrived in Australia from the United Kingdom as a child, and began his working life as a jackeroo, later being employed in Queensland in the family sugar mills. Preliminary studies in Melbourne under George Bell were followed by full-time studies in Europe, where he absorbed French and British influences. He returned to Australia in 1940, and settled in Sydney where he associated with Dobell, Friend, Herman and others. In between further overseas trips, Drysdale toured rural Australia, producing dramatic and eloquent canvases of both white and black Australians, their characters and their circumstances. Drysdale died in 1981. |
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