Fred Williams
(Australia, England 1927–1982)
- Title
- Red landscape
- Year
- (1965)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- gouache on ivory Arches paper
- Dimensions
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75.6 x 57.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., black gouache "Fred Williams.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Ruth Komon Bequest in memory of Rudy Komon 2004
- Accession number
- 162.2004
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This gouache is the smallest painting from the 'Upwey' series (1965-66), and is also the least formal and most fluid in handling. Its more extensive palette and extreme abstraction may reflect Williams' knowledge of the American abstract expressionists. It also presages Williams' late work, in which he depicts the landscape from above, rather than from the more familiar perspective of the ground.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
- Bibliography (3)
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'Celebrating Fred Williams' by Hendrik Kolenberg, pg. 24-25., Look Nov 2004, Nov 2004, 25 (colour illus.).
James Mollison (Australia, b.1932) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), A singular vision: the art of Fred Williams, Canberra, 1989, 110 (colour illus.).
Patrick McCaughey (Northern Ireland; Australia, b.1943) (Author), Fred Williams 1927-1982, Kensington, 1980, 176-177, 177 (colour illus.). plate no. 85
- Exhibition history (1)
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Australian Collection Focus: Fred Williams gouaches, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 Mar 2005–01 May 2005.
