Herbert Badham

Herbert Edward Badham (1899-1961) was an Australian realist painter and art teacher.

Herbert Badham
Self portrait sketch
Born1899
Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Died1961
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
EducationJulian Ashton Art School
OccupationPainter; art teacher
Spouse(s)Enid Wilson
Children1 daughter

Biography

Early life

Herbert Badham was born in 1899 in Watsons Bay, a suburb of Sydney, Australia to Herbert Lewis Badham (c1870-1937) and his wife Mary.[1][2][3][4][5] He was one of five children in the family. He enlisted in the Australian Royal Navy in 1917 to serve in the First World War.[1] From 1925 to 1938, he studied painting at the Julian Ashton Art School, where he was tutored by Julian Ashton, George Washington Lambert and Henry Gibbons.[1][2][3][5]

Career

He was a realist painter, and focused on paintings scenes of everyday life.[6] His work was exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1927 to his death.[5] Later, in 1939, his first solo exhibition took place at the Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney.[1]

Badham taught painting at the East Sydney Technical College from 1938 to 1961.[1][4] He published two books about Australian art.[1][3][5][7]

By April 1950 he was living at Darling Point Rd, Darling Point.[8] He married dressmaker Enid Wilson in Sydney in 1927.[9] Their daughter, Chebby Badham, became an artist and animator.[10]

Currently, two of his paintings are exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.[11] Another painting is found at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Ballarat.[4] Another painting is exhibited at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.[6]

Death

He died in 1961.[2]

Works

Paintings by Badham include:

  • Self-portrait (early 1920s).[12]
  • Travellers (1933).[1]
  • Breakfast piece (1936).[2]
  • The fairground, Sydney (1944).[6]
  • The vegetable shop (1950).[4]
  • Domesticity (1959).[13]

Bibliography
  • Herbert Badham (1949), A Study of Australian Art (Sydney: Currawong Press).[5][7]
  • Herbert Badham (ed.) (1954), A Gallery of Australian Art (Sydney: Currawong Press).[5]

References
  1. Bonhams: Herbert Badham (1899-1961) Travellers 1933
  2. Herbert Badham: Breakfast piece, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  3. Herbert Badham, Canadian War Museum
  4. Henry Badham: The vegetable shop, Art Gallery of Ballarat
  5. Cbus: Herbert Badham 1899–1961
  6. The fairground, Sydney, 1944, Canadian War Museum
  7. National Library of Australia: Herbert Badham
  8. The Sun (Sydney) 16 April 1950, p.7
  9. New South Wales registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages
  10. Chebby Badham, IMDb
  11. Art Gallery of New South Wales: Works by Herbert Badham
  12. Henry Badham: Self-portrait, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  13. Bonhams: Domesticity, 1959
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