Collection
Angus Nivison
(Australia 1953– )
- Title
- Untitled
- Year
- (2006)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal, pastel on paper
- Dimensions
-
18.9 x 20.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2007
- Accession number
- 255.2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
There are relatively few images of bushfire in Australian art - the best known are Strutt's 'Black Thursday' (1864) and Fred Williams' bushfire drawings and gouaches. Angus Nivison's painting and this related work on paper are powerful and memorable contemporary equivalents.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007
