Justin O'Brien
{{Short description|Australian painter (1917–1996)}}
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| birth_name = Justin Maurice O'Brien
| birth_date = 2 August 1917
| birth_place = Hurstville, New South Wales
| death_date = 25 January 1996
| death_place = Rome
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| field = Religious art, Portraiture
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| awards = Blake Prize (1951)
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Justin O'Brien {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (2 August 1917 – 25 January 1996){{cite web |url=https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/creators/justin-obrien/3477/ |title=Justin O'Brien |website=agsa.sa.gov.au |publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia |accessdate=2 August 2020}} was an Australian artist. He won the inaugural Blake Prize in 1951.{{cite news |date=14 March 1951 |title=Justin O'Brien Wins Blake Prize |page=9 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18203810 |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |accessdate=2 August 2020}}
Collections
O'Brien's works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia,{{cite web |url=https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/search.cfm?creirn=18825&order_select=1&view_select=4 |title=O'Brien, Justin 1917 – 1996 |website=artsearch.nga.gov.au |publisher=National Gallery of Australia |accessdate=2 August 2020}} the Art Gallery of New South Wales,{{cite web |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?q=Justin+O%27Brien |title=Collection: Justin O'Brien |website=artgallery.nsw.gov.au |publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales |accessdate=2 August 2020}} the National Gallery of Victoria,{{cite web |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/6107/ |title=The Virgin enthroned (Altar piece triptych) |website=ngv.vic.gov.au |publisher=National Gallery of Victoria |accessdate=2 August 2020}} the Art Gallery of South Australia,{{cite web |url=https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/collection-publications/collection/creators/justin-obrien/3477/#works |title=Justin O'Brien:Works in the collection |website=agsa.sa.gov.au |publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia |accessdate=2 August 2020}} the University of Sydney, and the University of Southern Queensland.{{citation |url=https://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/830747/LTU-Collections-Significance-Assessment_September-2017_Final.pdf |title=La Trobe Art Institute Art Collection Project: Significance Assessment |pages=142, 145 |author=Belinda Nemec |date=March 2017 |publisher= La Trobe University |accessdate=2 August 2020}}
The Australian National Portrait Gallery holds a number of portraits of O'Brien.{{cite web |url=https://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits.php?i=both&p=194 |title=Browse the Portraits |website=portrait.gov.au |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=2 August 2020}}
O'Brien was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours for service to art.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Justin Maurice O'Brien|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/870301|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister & Cabinet}}
He is the subject of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation Compass program.{{Cite episode |title=Justin O’Brien – The Sacred Music Of Colour |url=https://www.abc.net.au/religion/watch/compass/justin-obrien---the-sacred-music-of-colour/12472030 |access-date=2 August 2020 |series=Compass |series-link=Compass (Australian TV program) |first=Catherine |last=Hunter |author-link=Catherine Hunter (filmmaker) |network=ABC (Australian TV channel) |station= |date=26 July 2020 }}
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Category:20th-century Australian painters
Category:Australian modern painters
Category:20th-century Australian male artists
Category:Australian portrait painters
Category:Australian still life painters
Category:Blake Prize for Religious Art winners