of the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Library of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery and several state galleries. Reception A 1939 article in The Australian Women's Weekly ran with the headline "Girl Painter Who Won Art Prize is also Good Cook" and lists three of Heysen's favourite recipes along with her strategies for achieving domestic duties and leaving time for painting. A major retrospective exhibition of the work of daughter and father, Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art was curated by the National Gallery of Victoria March - July 2019. Reviewing it, Sydney Morning Herald critic John McDonald described Nora's career as a "fractured, stop-start affair", but that in a "popular rethinking of the Heysen's place in local art history ... Nora's star has risen while her father's has declined". McDonald nominated as Nora's signature work her "breathtaking still life, Eggs (1927)" from the Hinton collection in the New England Regional Art Museum, and described her Still Life of quinces (1933) from the same collection as "painted with the precision of an old master". Awards In 1993 she was awarded the Australia Council's Award for Achievement in the Arts and on 26 January 1998 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to art. 1933: Melrose Prize for Portraiture 1938: Archibald Prize for her portrait of Adine Michele Elink Schuurman 1993: Australia Council Award for Achievement in the Arts 1998: Order of Australia (AM) Notes References Australian Art: Artist: Heysen, Nora Accessed: 2007-11-21 Australian War Memorial. Fifty Australians: Nora Heyson National Library of Australia. 2001. Nora Heysen Exhibition Williamson, Kate Art Interview: Nora Heysen (1911-2003) Accessed: 2007-11-21 Further reading External links Madame Elink Schuurman 1938 - Archibald Prize winning portrait Nora Heysen at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Motherhood 1941 – Ballarat Fine Art Gallery AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson) 1944 – Australian War Memorial 1911 births 2003 deaths World War II artists Archibald Prize winners Members of the Order of Australia Australian people of German descent Australian women painters Australian portrait painters People from Hahndorf, South Australia Australian war artists 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian women artists Julian Ashton Art School alumni 21st-century Australian women 21st-century Australian people