National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | The Edwardians
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Audio guide to works from the NGA exhibition Grace Cossington Smith: A retrospective exhibition, shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 4 March – 13 June 2005
James WHISTLER, Arrangement in black no. 5: Lady Meux 1881
Valerie Susan Langdon — the subject of this work — caused a scandal in 1878 when she married in secret Henry Meux, the heir to a brewery fortune. Vale...
John Singer SARGENT, Lord Ribblesdale 1902
This portrait of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, came to epitomise the Edwardian aristocrat: a sportsman, soldier, courtier and landowner. Sarge...
C.R.W. NEVINSON, Returning to the trenches 1914
Nevinson witnessed the heavy casualties and widespread devastation of the first battles of the First World War. At the front, he made notes and sketch...
John Singer SARGENT, The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907
In The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy Sargent portrayed the artist Jane de Glehn sketching the scene in front of her, watched by her artist...
George FRAMPTON, Peter Pan 1912
Peter Pan is a small-scale version of George Frampton’s sculpture unveiled in Kensington Gardens in 1912. Edwardian society was enchanted by JM Barrie...
George LAMBERT, Important people 1914, 1921
In Important people Lambert presented a group of ordinary people at a time when the subjects of group portraits were often people with wealth or statu...
Charles CONDER, A decoration [Formerly listed in Titan as "A decoration (on silk?)"] (1894-1904)
A decoration was once owned by Pickford Waller, an English designer and a collector of Conder’s work, as well as paintings by Spencer Gore, George Lam...
George LAMBERT, Lotty and a lady 1906
Lambert presented Lotty in command of the room, comfortably looking out at the viewer. The lady, dressed for outdoors in hat and gloves, is tenuously ...
Rupert BUNNY, Madame Melba 1901-02
Nellie Melba was the professional name of Helen Porter Mitchell (1861–1931). The Australian soprano was born in Melbourne, the city from which she too...