A Salute to Max Angus Tasmanian Painter Bird open for catch and observing

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A Salute to Max Angus Tasmanian Painter Bird open for catch and observingFrom humble beginnings as an apprentice signwriter during the Depression, Max Angus worked hard to leave commercial art behind and become a successful watercolour painter. In the process he made himself a household name in Tasmania and, as his life drew to a close, he was acknowledged as a living treasure. Success like this might have been enough for another man, but Maxs passions took him beyond his art practice to publish books on the art of