Title
The gardener
(circa 1910)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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South Yarra
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Australia
- Date
- (circa 1910)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.2 x 132.0 cm stretcher; 96.2 x 152.3 x 11.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, black oil "F McCubbin". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1977
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 306.1977
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Frederick McCubbin
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About
This important work was painted around 1910 after McCubbin had returned from his first overseas trip and was living in South Yarra. With it’s sparkling texture and romantic colour it shows the influence of Turner whom McCubbin so admired. The looseness of the paint work and the use of the palette knife is very free and more impressionist in the French tradition than other paintings of the Australian Impressionist group. The scene, probably in the artist’s back garden, reveals McCubbin’s innate lyricism and the choice of his humble subject reveals his affinity to Buvelot. The beauty and vitality of the painting shows McCubbin at the peak of this late style.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Apr 1992–28 Jun 1992
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Okko Boer, Masters of the Heidelberg School, Leichhardt, 1998, 74 (colour illus.). plate no. 74
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Australian Art in the Old Courts', pg. 24-37, Sydney, 1984, 36 (colour illus.).
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Barry Pearce and Haruo Arikawa, Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 84 (colour illus.). cat.no. 39
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Vivienne Webb, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Golden age', pg. 37-38, Sydney, 2000, 70 (colour illus.), 71 (colour illus, detail), 301.
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