Sam Byrne: Folk painter of the Silver City
Viking Penguin, $29.95, 124 pp., illus.
Art
Sam Byrne: Folk painter of the Silver City by Ross Moore
by Noel Counihan •
Before I came across this attractive and instructive book, I knew very little of the art of Sam Byrne, thinking of him merely as one of a group of outback ‘primitives’ based on Broken Hill, the Silver City, of whom the best known is Pro Hart.
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