Tom Roberts
(England, Australia 08 Mar 1856–14 Sep 1931)
- Title
- Evening train to Hawthorn
- Other titles:
- Spencer Street Station
Evening, Princes Bridge
The last train to Hawthorn - Place of origin
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Melbourne →
Victoria →
Australia
- Year
- (circa 1889)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on cedar panel
- Dimensions
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14.0 x 22.6cm board; 34.6 x 50.2 x 4.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Edward Stinson Bequest Fund 1991
- Accession number
- 158.1991
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Further information
"An effect is only momentary ... two half hours are never alike ... So, in these works, it has been the object of the artists to render faithfully, and thus obtain first records of effects widely differing, and often of very fleeting character."
- The 9 by 5 Exhibition of Impressions catalogue 1889'The national game' and Tom Roberts' 'Evening train to Hawthorn' are two of the 182 'Impressions' that were exhibited in the influential '9 by 5 Exhibition of Impressions' held at Buxton's Gallery in Swanston Street, Melbourne, in August 1889. All works in the exhibition were similar in size. They were painted on small panels, mostly cigar box lids roughly nine by five inches, and similarly framed, in wide, flat, wooden frames with highlights of metallic colour.
The 9 by 5 exhibition was intended to provoke a response because such paintings would normally have been considered preliminary sketches for larger works and consequently unsuitable for public exhibition. The exhibition proved to be central to the development and subsequent reputation of the Heidelberg School and was a turning point in the history of Australian landscape painting.
- Bibliography (10)
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Terence Lane (Editor), Australian Impressionism, Melbourne, 2007, 337, 171 (colour illus.). cat.no. 9.27
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 56 (colour illus.), 302.
Ron Radford (Australia, b.1949) (Author), Humphrey McQueen (Author), Mary Eagle (Australia, b.1944) (Author), Virginia Spate (Australia) (Author), Daniel Thomas (Author), Jane Hylton (b.1950) (Author), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Leigh Astbury (b.1950) (Author), Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Jane Hylton (b.1950) (Author), Tom Roberts, Adelaide, 1996, 56, 201 (illus.).
Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 2 - Plates, Melbourne, 1985, (colour illus.). plate no. 57
Helen Topliss (Australia) (Author), Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 1 - Text, Melbourne, 1985, 108. cat.no. 127
Jane Clark (Australia) (Author), Bridget Whitelaw (Author), Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond, Melbourne, 1985, 121 (colour illus.).
Editor Unknown (Editor), Deutscher Fine Art: Australian paintings: colonial/impressionist/early modern, Carlton, Oct 1984. cat.no. 38; not paginated
William S. Ellenden Pty Ltd (Australia), Catalogue of fine Australian paintings and certain European paintings including the property of the late Sylvia Bertha Purves (niece of Tom Roberts), Sydney, 1976, 12 (colour illus.). titled 'Spencer Street Station'; lot no. 118
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Tom Roberts exhibition, National Art Gallery of NSW: souvenir catalogue, Sydney, 1947, 16. titled 'Evening, Princes Bridge'; cat.no. 50
Author Unknown (Author), 9 x 5: Exhibition of Impressions, Melbourne, 1889, 6. cat.no. 77; priced 1 guinea
- Exhibition history (14)
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The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, Buxton's, 17 Aug 1889 -.
Tom Roberts - Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 1947–Jan 1948.
Fine Australian paintings and certain European paintings including the property of the late Sylvia Bertha Purves (niece of Tom Roberts) (1976), William S. Ellenden Pty Ltd, 10 May 1976–12 May 1976.
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 30 Oct 1985–27 Jan 1986.
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 Feb 1986–20 Apr 1986.
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, Art Gallery of South Australia, 09 May 1986–29 Jun 1986.
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 30 Jul 1986–14 Sep 1986.
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Art Gallery of South Australia, 05 Oct 1996–17 Nov 1996.
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 30 Nov 1996–27 Jan 1997.
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 12 Feb 1997–06 Apr 1997.
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1997–01 Jun 1997.
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Art Gallery of Western Australia, 11 Jun 1997–27 Jul 1997.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Australian Impressionism, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 31 Mar 2007–08 Jul 2007.
