{{Short description|Australian realist painter and art teacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox person | name =Herbert Badham | image = Herbert Badham.jpg | caption = Self portrait sketch | birth_name = | birth_date =1899 | birth_place =Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia | death_date =24 September 1961 | death_place =Zetland, New South Wales, Australia | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education =Julian Ashton Art School | employer = | occupation =Painter; art teacher | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Enid Wilson | children = 1 daughter | parents = | relatives = }} '''Herbert Edward Badham''' (1899–1961) was an Australian realist painter and art teacher.
==Biography==
===Early life=== Herbert Badham was born in 1899 in Watsons Bay, a suburb of Sydney, Australia to Herbert Lewis Badham ({{circa|1870}}{{snd}}1937) and his wife Mary.<ref name="bonhams">[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21362/lot/13/ Bonhams: Herbert Badham (1899-1961) Travellers 1933]</ref><ref name=artgallery>[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/6381/ Herbert Badham: Breakfast piece] Art Gallery of New South Wales</ref><ref name=canadianwarmuseum>[http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artwar/artists/herbert-badham_e.shtml Herbert Badham] Canadian War Museum</ref><ref name=artgalleryballarat>[http://www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au/explore-and-experience/collection/australian-collection/badham,-herbert.aspx Henry Badham: The vegetable shop] Art Gallery of Ballarat</ref><ref name=cbus>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cbusartcollection.com.au/artists/?id=6 |title=Cbus: Herbert Badham 1899–1961 |access-date=16 August 2014 |archive-date=27 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427150253/http://www.cbusartcollection.com.au/artists/?id=6 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was one of five children in the family. He enlisted in the Australian Royal Navy in 1917 to serve in World War I.<ref name=bonhams/> From 1925 to 1938, he studied painting at the Julian Ashton Art School, where he was tutored by Julian Ashton, George Washington Lambert and Henry Gibbons.<ref name=bonhams/><ref name=artgallery/><ref name="canadianwarmuseum"/><ref name=cbus/>
===Career=== He was a realist painter, and focused on painting scenes of everyday life.<ref name=fairground>[http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/artwar/artworks/art28490_fairground_e.shtml The fairground, Sydney, 1944], Canadian War Museum</ref> "People in crowds, in the streets, in pubs, waiting, playing, watching others, travelling to and from work."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dixon |first=Christine |title=Herbert Badham, 1899-1961 : an exhibition organised by the Wollongong City Gallery with assistance from the Regional Galleries Association of New South Wales / catalogue essay: Christine Dixon; curator: Christine France. |publisher=Wollongong City Gallery |year=1987 |isbn=0959425039 |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref> His work was exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1927 to his death.<ref name=cbus/> Later, in 1939, his first solo exhibition took place at the Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney.<ref name=bonhams/> A review of the exhibition described a collection of portraits in pencil and a series of oils. Of particular note, the work ''Travellers'' was described as "bustling plebian."<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 May 1939 |title=Herbert Badham: interesting painter |pages=4 |work=Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17591372?searchTerm=herbert%20badham |access-date=8 July 2022}}</ref> In a similar vein, another review praised Badham's ability to paint "aspects of Sydney life which few painters have the courage to tackle."<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 May 1939 |title=Badham's Art Is Sincere |pages=38 |work=The Sun|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230882140?searchTerm=herbert%20badham |access-date=10 July 2022}}</ref>
Badham taught painting at the East Sydney Technical College from 1938 to 1961.<ref name=bonhams/><ref name=artgalleryballarat/> He published two books about Australian art,<ref name=bonhams/><ref name=canadianwarmuseum/><ref name=cbus/><ref name=trove>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27170217?selectedversion=NBD2492824 National Library of Australia: Herbert Badham]</ref> ''A Study of Australian Art'',<ref>[https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv0dpbWMvA A Study of Australian Art]</ref> 1949, and ''A Gallery of Australian Art'',<ref>[https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvoGg8RdvA A Gallery of Australian Art]</ref> 1954.
By April 1950 he was living at Darling Point Road, Darling Point.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/231061413?searchTerm=%22“Herbert%20badham”%22&searchLimits=notWords|||requestHandler|||anyWords|||exactPhrase=“Herbert+badham”|||dateTo|||dateFrom|||sortby=dateAsc The Sun (Sydney) 16 April 1950, p. 7]</ref> He married dressmaker Enid Wilson in Sydney in 1927.<ref>[https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/result?3 New South Wales registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages]</ref> Their daughter, Chebi Badham, became an artist and animator.<ref>{{Cite web |last=State Library of New South Wales; Macquarie Street |first=Sydney |date=2018-03-09 |title=Domesticity |url=https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/domesticity |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=State Library of NSW}}</ref><ref>[https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9Bv6Wl09 State Library of NSW. Chebi Badham interview by Deborah Beck, 16 May 2017]</ref>
Currently, two of his paintings are exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.<ref>[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=badham-herbert Art Gallery of New South Wales: Works by Herbert Badham]</ref> Another painting is found at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in Ballarat.<ref name=artgalleryballarat/> Another painting is exhibited at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.<ref name=fairground/>
===Death=== He died on 24 September 1961.<ref name=artgallery/> His obituary reported Badham died in Royal South Sydney Hospital on Sunday, aged 62. "Mr Badham, of Macleay Street Potts Point, was head teacher at the National Art School, East Sydney.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 September 1961 |title=Death of Mr Badham |pages=5 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |issn=0312-6315}}</ref>
==Works== Paintings by Badham include: *''Self-portrait'' (early 1920s).<ref>[http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/OA22.1965/ Henry Badham: Self-portrait], Art Gallery of New South Wales</ref> *''Travellers'' (1933).<ref name=bonhams/> *''Breakfast piece'' (1936).<ref name=artgallery/> *''The fairground, Sydney'' (1944).<ref name=fairground/> *''The vegetable shop'' (1950).<ref name=artgalleryballarat/> *''Domesticity'' (1959).<ref>[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22083/lot/1/ Bonhams: Domesticity, 1959]</ref>
== Gallery holdings == National, State, and regional galleries across Australia holds works by Herbert Badham.
* The National Gallery of Australia holds two works including [https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object?uniqueId=43112 The ferry] 1943. * The Art Gallery of N.S.W. holds two works including [https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/OA22.1965/ Self portrait], (early 1920s) * The State Library of N.S.W. holds nine works including [https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1wNrZpxn/jpmQVMyK0lrBa Hazy morning] 1944. * The National Gallery of Victoria holds two works including [https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/89880/ The night bus] 1943. * The National Portrait Gallery hold [https://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/1999.3/self-portrait-with-glove Self portrait with glove] 1939. * The New England Regional Art Museum hold [https://www.hinton.neram.com.au/hyde-park Hyde Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220729070739/https://www.hinton.neram.com.au/hyde-park |date=29 July 2022 }} 1933. * The Australian War Memorial hold [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C167904 The fair ground, Sydney] 1944.
==Bibliography== * Herbert Badham (1949), ''A Study of Australian Art'' (Sydney: Currawong Press).<ref name=cbus/><ref name=trove/> * Herbert Badham (ed.) (1954), ''A Gallery of Australian Art'' (Sydney: Currawong Press).<ref name=cbus/>
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