Lucy Evelyn Gough Beck (

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Boyd; 1916–2009) and also known as Lucy Boyd Beck, and Lucy de Guzman Boyd, was an Australian artist and a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty.

Boyd family

The Boyd artistic dynasty began with the marriage of Emma Minnie à Beckett (known as Minnie) and

Arthur Merric Boyd Arthur Merric Boyd (19 March 1862 – 30 July 1940) was an Australian painter. He and his wife Emma Minnie Boyd, Emma Minnie (Given name#Name at birth, née à Beckett) established a lifestyle of being artists, which many generations followed t ...

in 1886. Both were already established as painters at the time of their marriage. Their second-born son Merric Boyd married Doris Gough and had five artistic children, Lucy de Guzman Boyd,

Arthur Boyd Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, ...

, Guy Boyd, David Boyd, and Mary Elizabeth Boyd.

Early life and career

Born in Victoria, Lucy Boyd is the daughter of Australian artists William Merric Boyd and

Doris Boyd Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield Boyd (; 20 November 1888 – 13 June 1960) was an Australian artist, painter and ceramicist. Early life Doris Boyd was the youngest of six children, born to Victorian Naval Forces Lieutenant Thomas Bunbury Gough ...

. Lucy married Henry Hatton Beck (1901–1994) in 1939, setting up the Altamira Pottery together in Murrumbeena. In 1944 they sold the pottery to Lucy's brother

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and

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, and it was renamed Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery (AMB). Following Boyd Beck's parents deaths, Merric Boyd in 1959 and

in 1960, they returned to Melbourne and lived at ''Open Country'', the

Boyd family The Boyd family is an Australian family whose members over several generations contributed to the arts in the fields of painting, sculpture, pottery, Ceramic art, ceramics, literature, architecture, poetry and music. The Boyd family is consi ...

property in Murrumbeena. In 1963, they moved to

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for a short time before traveling to London, where in 1966 Lucy, Hatton, and their son, Robert Hatton-Boyd established a pottery at

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operating it for four years. Here the family made lamp bases, mugs, decorated plates and bowls, and other utilitarian eathernwares.

Exhibitions

* ''Hatton and Lucy Beck ceramics'', September 1965, Riek Le Grand's Studio,

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. * ''Hatton and Lucy Beck ceramics'', 29 September-3 October 1965, Studio Nundah,

. * Hatton and Lucy Beck 4–12 March 1970, Australian Sculpture Gallery, Narrabundah. * ''Hatton and Lucy Beck'', 30 March-4 April 1976, Macqurie Galleries,

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Publications

* Smith, Colin G. ''Lucy Boyd Beck : life and art''. Colin G. Smith, urrumbeena, Vic 2020.

Collections

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. * University of Newcastle,

. * Shepparton Art Gallery,

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References

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