Arthur Streeton
(Australia, England, Australia 08 Apr 1867–01 Sep 1943)
- Title
- From my camp (Sirius Cove)
- Other titles:
- Sirius Cove
- Year
- 1896
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on plywood
- Dimensions
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28.0 x 21.5cm board; 47.0 x 39.4 x 3.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, blue oil "STREETON/ -96".
- Credit
- Bequest of Mrs Elizabeth Finley 1979
- Accession number
- 193.1991
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Further information
Sydney is an artists’ city – glorious – Roberts & I go to Mossman’s Bay [sic] & pull through the lazy green water, & then lunch under the shade in the open air, eggs, meat, cheese & 2 big bottles of claret grown in Australia. The little Bay seemed all asleep & so very peaceful.
Arthur Streeton, 1890
Arthur Streeton painted this sketch from a corner of the beach at Little Sirius Cove at Mosman Bay, the site of an idyllic artists’ painting camp
known as Curlew Camp. With fellow artist Tom Roberts, Streeton led a bohemian lifestyle, living under canvas shelters and commuting to the city
by boat.- Bibliography (7)
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Geoffrey Smith (Author), Arthur Streeton and the Australian coast, Mornington, 2004, 18, 38. cat.no. 21; titled 'From my camp (Sirius Cove)'
Look Oct 2000, Oct 2000, 9 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 50 (colour illus.), 302.
The Brett Whiteley Studio (Australia, estab. 1994) (Editor), Big blue: the painted harbour (list of works), Sydney, 1997.
Ann Galbally (Australia) (Author), John Henshaw (New Zealand; Australia, b.1929, d.2006) (Editor), Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1971, (colour illus.). colour plate no. 40; titled: 'Sirius Cove'; dated: 1896; Coll: Mrs Finley, Sydney
Ann Galbally (Australia) (Author), John Henshaw (New Zealand; Australia, b.1929, d.2006) (Editor), Arthur Streeton, Melbourne, 1969. cat.no. 76; titled: 'Sirius Cove'; dated: 1896; Coll: Mrs Finley, Sydney
Arthur Streeton (Australia; England; Australia, b.1867, d.1943), The Arthur Streeton catalogue, Melbourne, 1935. cat.no. 181, "1896. Artist's Camp (Sirius Cove). Oil. 10½ x 8. Estate, Mr Pinschof".
- Exhibition history (6)
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Streeton's Sydney sunshine exhibition (1896), Exhibition Venue Unknown, 30 Nov 1896 -.
Big Blue - the painted harbour (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 Jun 1997–29 Mar 1998.
The well built Australian: Micheal Goldberg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Jul 1999–08 Aug 1999.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Plein-air painting in Europe 1780-1850, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Sep 2004–31 Oct 2004.
Arthur Streeton and the Australian coast, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 11 Dec 2004–06 Mar 2005.
