Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE (30 May 1928 – 28 March 2006), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback. He was nicknamed "Professor" (hence "Pro") during his younger days, when he was known as an inventor.
Hart grew up on his family's sheep station and was educated by correspondence, which his mother supe...
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Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE (30 May 1928 – 28 March 2006), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback. He was nicknamed "Professor" (hence "Pro") during his younger days, when he was known as an inventor.
Hart grew up on his family's sheep station and was educated by correspondence, which his mother supervised. He worked in the Broken Hill mines as a young man and, although he was painting by the age of seven, 27 years elapsed before his first exhibition at the Bonython Gallery, Adelaide, in 1962. He started painting full time in 1958 after only a few lessons. In 1960 he married Raylee June Tonkin and they had five children, three boys and two girls.
An artist whose paintings figure in collections all over the world, Pro Hart always remained closely attached to his homeland and continued to live in Broken Hill, where he established his own...
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