John Perceval

John de Burgh Perceval AO (1 February 1923 – 15 October 2000) was a well-known Australian artist. Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the Angry Penguins who redefined Australian art in the 1940s. Other members included John Reed, Joy Hester, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker. He was also an Antipodean and contributed to the Antipodeans exhibition of 1959.

This article is about the Australian artist. For other people with the same name, see John Perceval (disambiguation).

John Perceval
John Perceval (left) and Laurence Hope (right) at the Museum of Modern Art Australia, Melbourne, 1961
Born
Linwood Robert Steven South

(1923-02-01)1 February 1923
Bruce Rock, Western Australia, Australia
Died15 October 2000(2000-10-15) (aged 77)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainter, ceramicist
AwardsMcCaughey Prize (1958)
Wynne Prize (1960)
Officer of the Order of Australia (1991)
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