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I don't have so much a problem with him as he belonged to a group of painters who worked out of Broken Hill (mining town right in the middle of Australia in the desert). They were all naive type artists who did manage to depict something of their area.
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Margaret,
I spent time at Broken Hill, and Silverton and White Cliffs (my kids and I flew with the postman, to over 30 stations in one day, and the kids got to walk out onto and across the wing, props spinning, with a mailbag and put it the the box, or cupboard, or old refrigerator, at the end of the red-sand runway, assuming the sheep all ran away and none of the kangaroos ran toward the plane (the way deer do in the U.S.); and I visited an artist whose studio is in one of the mines below surface at White Cliffs.) And the original Warwick Fuller painting I purchased was of Silverton. Though I purchased it near my home in Turramurra, it was of cockatoos in Silverton, and I just had to have it. I consider it precious to me, and I was somewhat embarrassed to purchase it for a pittance. (Perhaps instructively, here, a reproduction of that painting would have been of no interest at all to me.) I'll mention in passing that I consider returning to Australia in retirement. What utterly endless fun, and incredible material for paintings!
Concerning your copyright story, I remember that I forgot one, and as "luck" would have it, it involves Kinkade. The article I wrote about Arthur Streeton originally had a title that evoked his century-old Australian moniker, "Painter of Light", and so naturally I used that in the title for my article. I was told by the editor that the publisher had requested a change to my title, because we might get into trouble with this "Thomas Kinkade" guy, who has actually trademarked the phrase "Painter of Light". That was the first time I ever held anything against Kinkade, because as between him and Streeton in painting light, there is a grand canyon.
Cheers from stateside. I intend to Christmas in Sydney. Would you kindly arrange good weather?
Steven