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An imaginative unfolding of a life, a new play asks: would Sidney Nolan have become the artist he became if not for Sunday Reed?
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The Titan's Goblet. Artist: Thomas Cole (American, Lancashire 1801-1848 Catskill, New York). Dimensions: 19 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (49.2 x 41 cm). Date: 1833. The culmination of Cole's romantic fantasies, this
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