Sam Atyeo | |
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.jpg) Atyeo at Yosemite National Park in 1945 | |
| Born | Samuel Lawrence Atyeo January 6, 1910 Brunswick, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | May 26, 1990 (aged 80) Vence, France |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | National Gallery of Victoria Art School |
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| Notable work | "Organised Line to Yellow" |
| Movement | Modernism |
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Samuel Laurence Atyeo (6 January 1910 – 26 May 1990) was an Australian painter, designer and diplomat. Atyeo was active in Melbourne's modernist movement in the 1930s and was associated with the Heide circle. He later had a diplomatic career working under Herbert Evatt, and was noted for his unconventional approach to the work. He gave up both artistic and diplomatic work in the 1950s and spent the rest of his life farming in France with occasional returns to painting. Atyeo's art and design work made a considerable contribution to modernism in Australia, and his painting "Organised Line to Yellow" is considered Australia's first abstract painting.