Historical information

Bill Delecca was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1929.
A Bendigo-based teacher and painter, he has exhibited widely in the local area from 1951, including a retrospective in Bendigo Art Gallery, 1990.
He has twice won the Bendigo Art Prize for watercolour and his work is represented in galleries and private collections throughout Australia and overseas.
Instrumental in the establishment of degree courses in Art at Bendigo College of Advanced Education, he is also the author of an Education Department report to the Australia Council, 1987.

Physical description

Oil painting. The painting is done in dark grey and white with some splashes of orange. William Delecca Collection.

Inscriptions & markings

In pencil on the back Stramit Industries fire at Golden Square 1961, painting by William A. Delecca