{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox artist | name = Frank Hodgkinson | image = Frank Hodgkinson.png | image_size = 180px | alt = | caption = Hodgkinson as Official War Artist | birth_name = Francis George Hodgkinson | birth_date = 23 April 1919 | birth_place = Sydney, NSW, Australia | death_date = 20 October 2001 (aged 82) | death_place = Sydney, NSW, Australia | known_for = Printmaking | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = | elected = | website = }}
'''Frank Hodgkinson''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (23 April 1919 – 20 October 2001) was a noted Australian printmaker, painter and graphic artist.
==Life==
Hodgkinson was educated at Fort Street High School and after leaving began work as a commercial artist and newspaper illustrator.<ref name="faberest">{{cite journal|title=Obituaries|journal=Faber Est|date=February 2002|issue=61|url=http://www.fortstreet-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/community/fortiansunion/FaberEst/Faber%20Est%2061%20February%202002.pdf|accessdate=14 January 2011}}</ref> He studied at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.<ref name="kerr"/>
At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Army and served in the Middle East, North Africa, New Guinea and Borneo as an official war artist. Following the war he studied and worked in Europe, especially Spain. He won the first Helena Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship in 1958.<ref name="faberest"/><ref>''The Australian Women's Weekly'' Wednesday 10 December 1958 Page 16</ref>
Hodgkinson moved back to Australia in 1970 and in 1971 took up residence in the bush north of Melbourne at Dunmoochin on the invitation of Clifton Pugh.<ref name="kerr">{{cite web|last=Kerr|first=Joan|title=Frank Hodgkinson|url=https://daao.org.au/artist_bio/3102|publisher=Dictionary of Australian Artists Online|accessdate=10 September 2010|year=2007}}</ref> Pugh introduced Hodgkinson to oil viscosity printing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Frank Hodgkinson|url=http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/110-2004+untitled|work=Collection|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|accessdate=4 February 2011|author=Australian Art Department}}</ref>
Hodgkinson married Kate Ratten in 1972 then moved to Kenthurst, outside Sydney.<ref name="kerr"/>
Hodgkinson became a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999 for services to the visual arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869810|title=Francis George Hodgkinson|last=|first=|date=|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-03}}</ref>
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