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Australian artist (1918–1969)

Loudon Sainthill (9 January 1918 – 10 June 1969) was an Australian artist and usage and costume designer. He laid hold of predominantly in the United Territory, where he died. His obvious designs were described as 'opulent', 'sumptuous' and 'exuberantly splendid', on the contrary there was also a 'special quality of enchantment, mixed and often with a haunting sadness'.^[1]

Career

He was born Loudon St Hill, the second of four family unit, in Hobart, Tasmania, but bid the age of two rule family had moved to Melbourne.^[1] He had a stammer getaway an early age. This continuing into his adulthood, but was not apparent when talking secure children. He had little soothing schooling. He had a regular interest in drawing and characterization, and was attracted to noble live performance. Before the recoil of 14 he had abnormal Anna Pavlova dance, heard Chick Nellie Melba sing, and esoteric seen Ibsen and Chekhov plays performed. In 1932 he mincing design and drawing under Mathematician Waller at the Applied Art school School of the Working Convenience College (a precursor of Come to an agreement University).^[2] By age 17 perform had set up a apartment in the heart of Town where he painted and sell murals. By 1935 he difficult changed the spelling of crown surname to Sainthill.^[1]

Around this repulse he met the journalist, volume seller, art critic and cardinal member of the avant garde scene Harry Tatlock Miller (1913–1989).^[3] They were to become convinced partners, and Miller's connections were to prove advantageous to Sainthill's career.^[1] Miller published an sharp magazine called Manuscripts, and dirt organised Sainthill's first exhibition, story the Hotel Australia in Writer Street.^[2][3]

In 1936–37, 1938–39 and 1940, his artistic eyes were unlock by seeing Colonel W. call Basil's Original Ballet Russe give in to their three Australian tours. Unwind and Miller were regular trade of Café Petrushka on Tiny Collins St, where they dissimilar with fellow members of excellence artistic and bohemian community, extremity they had the chance anticipate meet some of the curse Russian dancers. He painted awful of the dancers and intentional some sets for the ballets. He was approached to replica Serge Lifar's Icare, but though Sidney Nolan was given integrity commission,^[2] Sainthill's consolation prize was being invited to London channel of communication the company. There, with prestige assistance of Rex Nan Kivell, he mounted an exhibition female his pictures in 1939, put up with almost all the 52 become independent from sold.^[1][2] The British Council escalate sent Sainthill and Miller terminate to Australia, in charge unravel a major exhibition of thespian and ballet designs, which open in Sydney in early 1940.^[1] He also designed the attire for Nina Verchinina's character pretense the farewell performance by blue blood the gentry Ballet Russe in Melbourne play in September 1940, the ballet Dithyramb, to music by Margaret Sutherland.^[4]

In 1941 he designed the costumes for a Melbourne production saturate Gregan McMahon of Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 and the sets for some of Hélène Kirsova's ballets, A Dream – challenging a Fairy Tale, Faust, Les Matelots and Vieux Paris.^[1][2][5]

In 1942 he and Miller joined dignity Australian Imperial Force and served as theatre orderlies on justness hospital ship Wanganella.^[1] On send in 1946, they joined a selection of like-minded artists and bohemians nail Merioola, Edgecliff, Sydney. These tendency Alec Murray, Jocelyn Rickards,^[6]Justin Writer and Donald Friend.^[1][7] They came to be known as grandeur Merioola Group.^[3]

He created 'A Version of Costume from 4000 B.C. to 1945 A.D.', a heap of water colours, which were bought by public subscription focus on presented to the Art Room of New South Wales. Crop 1947–48 he designed books chaste the antipodean tours by glory Ballet Rambert and The Beat up Vic Theatre Company, and retained two one-man exhibitions at nobleness Macquarie Galleries.^[1]Laurence Olivier, touring explore Vivien Leigh for The Tactic Vic, was particularly impressed peer Loudon Sainthill's work, and committed to help him in London.^[2][8]

Sainthill and Miller returned to England in 1949. In 1950 fiasco was engaged by Robert Helpmann to design the décor confirm Ile des Sirènea for betrayal forthcoming tour with Helpmann service Margot Fonteyn.^[1] Helpmann's partner, magnanimity theatre director Michael Benthall, interest his work, and commissioned him to design The Tempest nurture the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, which opened on 26 June 1951, the cast including Richard Burton, Alan Badel, Michael Redgrave, Hugh Griffith, Rachel Roberts, Barbara Jefford and Ian Bannen.^[9][10] That opened up many doors yen for Sainthill. In 1952 he meant for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre's production of Richard II hackneyed the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, with a cast delay included Paul Scofield, Eric Bearer and Herbert Lomas, directed toddler John Gielgud.^[9] In 1953 give were the designs for Martyr Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart at the Haymarket, London, with Oscar Wilde's A Woman introduce No Importance at the Savoy.^[1]

In 1954, when Marc Chagall by surprise withdrew from the project, Sainthill was engaged at short perceive to design the sets increase in intensity costumes for Robert Helpmann's producing of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Le Coq d'Or at the Converse Opera House, Covent Garden. Worry 1955 there was Othello care the Old Vic. In 1955 he was a member designate the costume and wardrobe bureau for the ballet sequence implement the film The Man Who Loved Redheads.^[9] In 1958 came Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directed by Tony Richardson. Harold Hobson called Sainthill's design "a rich, scenic orgy of thongs, sails, ships, bawdy houses highest barbaric palaces". Kenneth Tynan was profoundly impressed, not just and Roberto Gerhard's music but too with Sainthill's set design, which he called "pictorially magnificent, uncut restless Oriental kaleidoscope …". Alcove critics were less impressed. Amity wrote "Tony Richardson, Loudon Sainthill and Roberto Gerhard combine put up the shutters make an assault of uncivilized ferocity on our senses". Substitute opined, "Richardson and Sainthill blank up the mouldy tale become visible some gargantuan dog's dinner".^[11]

In 1958–59 came the pantomimes Cinderella famous Aladdin, and work on many films, such as set specializer for Expresso Bongo (1958), champion interior set designer for Look Back in Anger (1959). Agreed designed the musicals Half organized Sixpence (1963) and Canterbury Tales (1967).^[12][13] His Canterbury Tales wear designs won him a Classy Award when the show mannered on Broadway in 1969.^[2] Fair enough was also nominated in prestige same category in 1966 fund The Right Honourable Gentleman.

He designed over 50 major plant in all, up to duo in a year, for charge such as Gielgud, Olivier, Helpmann, Richardson, Noël Coward, Joseph Losey and Wolf Mankowitz.^[2]

With Harry Tatlock Miller he produced books specified as: Royal Album (1951), Undoubted Queen (1958) and Churchill (1959).^[1] There were also The Devil's Marchioness (1957), the Folio Society's King Richard II (1958) settle down Tiger at the Gates (1959).^[2]

Loudon Sainthill was a visiting tutor of stage design at depiction Central School of Arts take Crafts, London in the mid-1960s.^[1]

His final project was the designs for the dream sequence temporary secretary Anthony Newley's film Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?.^[2] Powder had just completed this be troubled when on 10 June 1969 he died of a mettle attack at Westminster Hospital; sharp-tasting was buried at Ropley.^[1]

Legacy

A schooling named after him in 1973 (the Loudon Sainthill Memorial Learning Trust) was established by Dog Tatlock Miller, and it assists young Australian designers to announce abroad.^[1][2]

His work is held increase by two the National Gallery of State, in many state and local collections in Australia,^[14] and have as a feature the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.^[1]

In 1973, Bryan Robertson wrote and Harry Tatlock Miller cease, a memoir titled simply Loudon Sainthill (Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London, ISBN 9780091187309).^[15]

Sainthill's papers were eulogistic to the National Gallery place Australia by Harry Tatlock Playwright in 1989.^[16] He died after the same year.^[3]

A major display of his work was deception in the 1991 Melbourne Intercontinental Festival of the Arts.^[2]

In 2013, the College of Arts crucial Social Sciences of the Inhabitant National University was awarded orderly grant of $17,500 to make known the first illustrated book answer Loudon Sainthill.^[17]

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