George Duncan (painter)

George Bernard Duncan (7 January 1904 – 8 May 1974) was an Australian painter born in New Zealand.

[1] She left her husband and they met up in London in 1934, where they studied, worked and travelled, including a 3-month stay in Spain.

He spent the war years as a camouflage artist, returning to Sydney in 1942 to marry Alison, her husband having died in 1938.

He and Alison moved to the country and took to painting landscapes around Berrima, Moss Vale and Goulburn but returned to Sydney when he secured a position as director of David Jones Art Gallery, which he held from 1953 to 1964.

[1] He was president of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1958 He was treasurer of Contemporary Art Society, Sydney from 1950 A joint retrospective of George's and Alison's work was held at Macquarie Galleries in 1976.