Sidney Nolan Australia in 2013, following those of Brett Whiteley and Russell Drysdale. Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (; 22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. His oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his series of paintings on legends from Australian history, most famously Ned Kelly, the bushranger and outlaw. Nolan's stylised depiction of Kelly's armour has become an icon of Australian art. Sidney Nolan was born in Carlton, at that time an inner working-class suburb of Melbourne, on 22 April
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly unfinished "A Message to Kelly" (1947). "The Glenrowan Affair" was produced by Rupert Kathner in 1951, featuring the exploits of Kelly and his "wild colonial boys" on their journey of treachery, violence, murder and terror, told from the perspective of an ageing Dan Kelly. It starred Bob Chitty, a well-known Australian rules footballer, as Ned Kelly. In 1967, independent filmmaker Garry Shead directed and produced "Stringybark Massacre", an avant garde re-creation of the murder of the three police officers at Stringybark Creek. The next major film of the Kelly story was "Ned Kelly" (1970), directed by Tony Richardson and starring