Elise BLUMANN, Storm on the Swan 1946
Elise Blumann painted Perth’s Swan River and the native melaleuca trees of the region many times. Escaping the Nazi regime that devastated much of Eur...
National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950
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Audio guide for twenty two key works from the 2007 25th anniversary of the National Gallery of Australia exhibition 'Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950' curated by National Gallery Director, Ron Radford AM and celebrates the rich history of landscape painting in Australia.
Tom ROBERTS, A Sunday afternoon [A Sunday afternoon picnic at Box Hill] c.1886
By 1882 a railway had been constructed between Melbourne and the township of Box Hill, and in 1885 Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Louis Abrahams ...
Clarice BECKETT, Sandringham Beach c.1933
Clarice Beckett’s Sandringham Beach is a dynamic and modern composition of sand, bathing boxes and beach walkers. Beckett depicted the scene from an u...
Harry GARLICK, The drover 1906
Harry Garlick painted The drover in response to the ‘Federation drought’, which began in 1895 and reached its climax in the summer of 1901–02. Officia...
Sidney NOLAN, Burke at Cooper's Creek 1950
Fuelled by a keen interest in travel, Nolan’s personal experiences of the land are closely linked to the development of mythology within his work. The...
Arthur BOYD, The hunter I (1944)
Arthur Boyd’s paintings during the Second World War reflect the personal turmoil he experienced at the time and his deep opposition to violence. Boyd ...
Russell DRYSDALE, Emus in a landscape 1950
… it is continually exciting, these curious and strange rhythms which one discovers in a vast landscape, the juxtaposition of figures, of objects, all...
Howard TAYLOR, Trees 1950
Trees is one of a number of works in egg tempera that Howard Taylor painted from around 1950. The work is a disciplined study of line, light and shape...
Charles CONDER, Ricketts Point, Beaumaris [Sandringham] 1890
Charles Conder would have sat right by the water’s edge when he painted this joyous impression of Melbourne bay-side activity. Much of the scene is do...
Thomas BAINES, Gouty stem tree, Adansonia Gregorii, 58 feet circumference, near a creek south-east of Stokes Range, Victoria River 1868
Gouty stem tree, Adansonia Gregorii, 58 feet circumference, near a creek south-east of Stokes Range, Victoria River is an extraordinary image of an en...