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 pastel painting of a weatherboard house behind a wooden fence. A bare tree is next to the house and another outside the fence next to a boat. A green shrub at the right. The painting is signed by W.A. Delecca '52. Untitled. William Delecca collection.

Inscriptions & markings

Signature of the artist at bottom right