Wes Walters
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Wes Walters
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Wes(ley) Walters (1928-2014) was an Australian artist and winner of the Archibald Prize.
Walters was born in Mildura, Victoria, in 1928. He was a realist portrait painter and abstract artist who painted nearly 200 portraits of leading Australians, especially academics, businessmen, artists, and musicians. He was awarded the Minnie Crouch Prize at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1953 and 1956.
He won the 1979 Archibald prize in 1980 with a portrait of Phillip Adams. He was a finalist in the Doug M
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Australian artist
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