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Mervyn Officer

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Latitude
-37.585285
Longitude
141.4037762
Start Date
1906-01-01
End Date
1974-01-01

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ID
tb9201

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Birth Place
Casterton, Vic, Australia
Biography
“I don’t have any detailed biographical material but I do have three small paintings that I think he painted. My father was a psychiatrist in Melbourne in the thirties, forties and early fifties. He specialised in child psychiatry. I know that he knew Mervyn and that Mervyn gave him some works. Dad might well have known him from the left wing art circles that he was part of. However, I think that Mervyn might well have been a patient at Mont Park mental hospital at some stage. When I was a child, we lived at Mont Park. My three paintings are filed away in my flat file but I have scans of them.” [Supplied by contributor Neil Phillips] Mervyn also exhibited with theSeven Watercolourists Society : [Australian Gallery File].Other AuthorsSeven Watercolourists SocietyContentsFile holds the following annual exhibition catalogues:-First (1931), [Second] (1932), Third [1933?] (2 copies), [Fifth], (1935). Some artists exhibiting with the Society were :- Geoffrey R. Anderson, James F. Farrell, E. Bonaventure Heffernan, Harry E. Hudson, Dominic Leon, John A. Munro, Mervyn Officer, Rex Battarbee, John A. Gardiner, C. Dudley Wood, James D. McMahon, and by invitation W.H.A. Constable. Files contain material such as art exhibition catalogues, invitations, press clippings, media releases and/or other ephemeral items relating to Australian artists and galleries, where there are more than three artists exhibiting at the one exhibition. Other material may be collected under individual artists in the Australian Art and Artists file. Notes A society based in Melbourne, Victoria. Their first annual exhibition was held in 1931. Alternative spellings of the Society’s name are :- 7 Water-colorists OR 7 Watercolourists. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32484979?keyword=%22Mervyn%20Officer%22] Writers: Neil_Phillips Michael Bogle Date written: 2021 Last updated: 2021
Born
b. 4 December 1906
Summary
Mervyn Officer is described as a commercial artist in an 1941 obituary for his father, the Secretary of the Victorian Graziers Association. He was a student at the National Gallery School (1926, 1927) also illustrated theatre programmes (1926). By 1931, he was exhibiting landscape works at Tavistock House and abstract watercolour works at the Athenaeum Gallery in 1932.
Gender
Male
Died
6-Aug-74
Age at death
68