Title
Anak Bayan
(1957)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Anak Bayan - Triptych
- Date
- (1957)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- gouache on cardboard on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 96.8 x 227.3 cm board; 109.0 x 241.3 x 9.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., red gouache "Anak BAYAN IF ["IF" monogram]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Lucy Swanton 1982
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 184.1982
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ian Fairweather/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Ian Fairweather
Works in the collection
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About
Painted while Ian Fairweather was living on Bribie Island, Queensland, Anak Bayan recalls the artist’s time in Manila, where he lived for a period during the 1930s. The painting has been viewed as a celebration of birth ('anak bayan' means 'son of the country' in the Tagalog language), yet public birth celebrations are not customary in the Philippines.
The well-known street, Anak Bayan, in the Bukid district was most probably the artist's inspiration for painting. According to Fairweather scholar Murray Bail, Anak Bayan is the artist's 'summation of the crowded everyday in Manila' and 'a streetscape of the mind', encapsulating Fairweather's memories of the Filipino people.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Ian Fairweather (1957), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 20 Nov 1957–02 Dec 1957
An exhibition of paintings and drawings from the collection of Lucy Swanton (1960), War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, 02 May 1960–13 May 1960
Project 41: The mosaic -The grid (1983), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Mar 1983–24 Apr 1983
Fairweather (1994), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Fairweather (1994), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 17 Dec 1994–19 Feb 1995
Fairweather (1994), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1995–07 May 1995
East of the Sun (1997), The Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, 01 Jun 1996–17 Nov 1996
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 20 publications
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Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, 'Anak Bayan', pg. 141-157, Sydney, 2009, 141, 142, 144-145 (colour illus.), 254. plate no. 125; cat.no. 140
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Murray Bail, Ian Fairweather, Sydney, 1981, 134, 138-139 (colour illus.), 140, 242. plate no. 68; cat.no. 136
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Candice Bruce, Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850–1965 from the Queensland Art Gallery collection, '"A Grand Display of Linear Ecstasies". Ian Fairweather Kite Flying', pg. 270-275, Brisbane, 1998, 270.
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Australian 20th Century Art', pg. 71-89, Sydney, 1984, 73 (colour illus.).
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Tony Costa, Look, 'The art that made me - Archibald winner, Tony Costa on Kevin Connor, Sidney Nolan, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Ian Fairweather', pg. 23-25, Sydney, Sep 2019-Oct 2019, 25 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Mosaic and figure', pg. 213-214, Sydney, 2000, 228, 229 (colour illus., detail), 230 (colour illus.).
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Julie Ewington, Look, 'Ian Fairweather by Murray Bail: Reflections of the artist and writer', pg.10-13, Sydney, Jun 2009, 10-11 (colour illus.). book review
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 68 (colour illus.).
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Drusilla Modjeska, Fairweather, 'Painting mother', pg. 44-53, Australia, 1994, 45-46, 48, 50-51, 53, 102 (colour illus.), 142. plate no. 30
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Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian', pg. 13-35, Sydney, 1988, 32.
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Barry Pearce, Look, 'Fairweather's last supper - its journey into our collection', pg. 12-13, Sydney, Jun 2011, 12.
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Ursula Prunster, Aspects of Australian art, Sydney, 2000, (illus.). card no. 11: John Olsen 'Spanish encounter' 1960
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Claire Roberts and John Thompson (Editors), Ian Fairweather: A life in letters, Melbourne, 2019, 146-147 (colour illus.).
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John Saxby (Editor), Look, 'Art that made me: Ildiko Kovacs', pg. 14-15, Sydney, Apr 2016, 15 (colour illus.).
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Jill Sykes, Look, 'Members events', pg. 47-49, Sydney, Nov 2008, 49 (colour illus.).
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Tony Twigg, Asian art news, 'The wandering artist', pg. 52-57, Hong Kong, Jan 2009-Feb 2009, 52-53 (colour illus.), 56, 57 (colour illus., detail).
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Tony Twigg, Art Monthly Australia, 'Landfall: Ian Fairweather's landing at Oesosole, Roti', pg. 64-65, Canberra, Oct 2011, 64 (colour illus.), 65.
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Donald Williams, Looking At Australia, Australia, 1997, 11, 23, 37, 111.
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Project 41 - the mosaic, the grid, Sydney, 1983, 2. cat.no. 8
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East of the Sun, Sydney, 1997. List of works
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