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An image of Landscape with bent tree by Fred Williams

Fred Williams

(Australia, England 1927–1982)

Title
Landscape with bent tree
Year
circa 1958-circa 1959
Media category
Watercolour
Materials used
watercolour, gouache, brush and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions

38.0 x 42.0cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, black ink "Fred Williams". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 1980
Accession number
10.1980
Copyright
© Estate of Fred Williams
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (6)

Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Author), Fred Williams: infinite horizons, Canberra, 2011, 56, 59 (colour illus.), 229.

Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 252 (colour illus.), 302.

Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Curator), Australian painters; Seeing Cézanne, Sydney, 1998, 31. cat.no. 54

Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 83 (colour illus.), 122. cat.no. 74

Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Patricia McDonald (Editor), Haruo Arikawa (Japan) (Author), Chikashi Kitazaki (Japan) (Editor), Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 167 (colour illus.). cat.no. 110

Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, Sydney, 1981, 25 (illus.). cat.no. 46

Exhibition history (11)

Three years on: Acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981.

Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 28 Apr 1992–28 Jun 1992.

Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992.

Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996.

Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1996–1996.

Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1996–1996.

Australian Painters Seeing Cézanne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 28 Nov 1998–17 Jan 1999.

Australian Collection Focus: Fred Williams gouaches, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 Mar 2005–01 May 2005.

Fred Williams: infinite horizons, National Gallery of Australia, 12 Aug 2011–06 Nov 2011.

Fred Williams: infinite horizons, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 07 Apr 2012–05 Aug 2012.

Fred Williams: infinite horizons, Art Gallery of South Australia, 31 Aug 2012–04 Nov 2012.