AUSTRALIAN ART Biography

• 407 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-402) and index. #031123 (Age tanning)
• Blackman, Barbara, 1928-
• Blind women — Australia — Biography
• Australia — Biography
• Barbara Blackman AO (née Patterson; born 22 December 1928) is an Australian writer, poet, librettist, broadcaster, model and patron of the arts.^[2][3] In 2004, she donated $1 million to a number of Australian music organisations, including Pro Musica, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National University’s School of Music and the Stopera Chamber Opera Company. In 2006, she was awarded the Australian Contemporary Music Award for Patronage.^[4] Barbara Blackman was married for 27 years to renowned Australian artist Charles Blackman.
• Blackman became an artist’s model who was in high demand by many leading modernist artists in Australia such as Clifton Pugh and Fred Williams, and appears in many of Charles Blackman‘s, works, including his Alice In Wonderland series of paintings.^[4]