4 DECADENT MEMOIRS
Artist
NORA HEYSEN, A PORTRAIT by Anne-Louise Willoughby, Fremantle Press
he first woman winner of the Archibald Prize in 1938 (the second, Judy Cassab, would not win until 1960); Heysen was a trailblazer in many fields. An army captain, she also became Australia’s first female official war artist in 1943. Daughter of
