Dobell Festival: The Artist and His Dogs

At a young age, and while studying drawing at night, William Dobell found his first job as a ‘dog-walloper’. His duties in this job were to keep dogs from ruining shop display windows, by chasing them away.

As an artist who left school at the age of 14 to forge his own path, this interaction with man’s best friend grew as did his practice. In this intimate set of photographs loaned from the AGNSW Archive Collection, we see a snippet of Dobell in his homelife, the artist with his dogs in Lake Macquarie.

Image: Sir William Dobell with dog outside a house. Credit line: Cultural Collections, Lake Macquarie. 

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Museum of Art and Culture, 1A First Street, Booragul 2284,  2284  View in Google Maps

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1A First Street, Booragul 2284 ,  2284

Museum of Art and Culture

1A First Street, Booragul 2284 ,  2284

Dobell Festival: The Artist and His Dogs