Fred Williams
(Australia, England 1927–1982)
- Title
- Sherbrooke Forest number 1, from the album Volume 3
- Year
- 1961
- Media categories
- Print, Book
- Materials used
- drypoint, engraving, aquatint, burnishing, black ink on Kent paper
- Edition
- State xv of 23, ed. 3/50
- Dimensions
-
19.1 x 16.8cm platemark; 23.7 x 21.3cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil "Fred Williams.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Gwen Frolich 2004
- Accession number
- 359.2005.31
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Fred Williams was a major painter and draughtsman of the Australian landscape, and the most significant and influential Australian printmaker of the latter half of last century. His work has been the subject of a number of important exhibitions and publications in the past few years; most recently, his prints were shown in a solo exhibition at the British Museum in 2003.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
- Bibliography (2)
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'Fred Williams: First showing of his etchings given by Gwen Frolich' by Anne Ryan, pg. 15., Look May 2006, May 2006, 15 (colour illus., State iii of 4 edition 31/35 ).
James Mollison (Australia, b.1932) (Author), Fred Williams etchings, Woollahra, 1968.
