Morning Mist c1814 is a fine example of John Glover’s coveted English landscape paintings and contains the hallmarks of the picturesque movement that dominated English art in the early 1800s. It is also an important precursor to the paintings that Glover painted when he moved to...
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By Asta Cameron
02 Mar 2022
Dickerson was in his mid-twenties when he painted The Literates, soon after his service in the Royal Australian Air Force in Darwin and Southeast Asia during the Second World War. After the war ended, Dickerson spent about a year on Morotai Island in Indonesia, waiting to be demobilised, where...
By Catherine Baxendale
04 Nov 2021
In traditional landscape painting, trees are typically employed as a compositional device – a means of framing a particular passage or view. In this watercolour by Albert Namatjira, the central tree has become a subject unto itself: we are presented with a portrait of an individual living...
By BRETT BALLARD
04 Nov 2021
The death of George Lambert in 1930 marked the end of the extraordinary life of a painter who in passing called neither Australia nor England home. Restlessness and energy marked Lambert’s life, and in death the tributes flowed from painters who saw Lambert as the great light of Australian...
By Ruth Pullin
04 Nov 2021
Although the many mountain ranges that you catch sight of here both on the African as well as on the Arabian side appeared almost universally bare, the imposing forms and colours with the variation of the lighting are indescribably beautiful. I could hardly tear...
By Ashleigh Wilson
04 Nov 2021
The numbers don’t lie. CJ Hendry, born in South Africa, raised in Australia and now based in New York, has built a social media empire considerably larger than her peers. And she’s done it by harnessing the power of her art.
By Asta Cameron
04 Nov 2021
By the late 1960s, when the present work was created, Charles Blackman had already exhibited his three major series: the Schoolgirls paintings of 1951 to 1954, the Alice in Wonderland paintings of 1956, and the Faces and Flowers paintings of the late 1950s – all motifs...
By Tim Abdallah
04 Nov 2021
A solitary woman is walking away from us, strolling down the road of a modern city. There is a breeze: a scrap of paper tumbles across the road. Sharp shadows cut cross the scene and streaks of cloud darken the sky. The woman has an umbrella open and yet there is no sign of rain. Although the...
By Catherine Baxendale
04 Nov 2021
Patricia with Fruit and Flowers belongs to a rare and important group of works created in Brisbane during the 1960s, when Margaret Olley first achieved recognition on a national scale. In 1962 Olley was heralded by the Courier-Mail as Australia’s ‘top woman painter’ following...
By Catherine Baxendale
04 Nov 2021
Were Grace Cossington Smith to be alive today, she would probably have been unfazed by the prospect of spending months at home. Of course, Cossington Smith never had to run the gauntlet of Zoom calls or home-schooling – though she was a devoted carer to her sister Diddy, who fell ill in the...