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An image of The storm by Walter Withers

Walter Withers

(Australia 1854–1914)

Title
The storm
Year
1896
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas on hardboard
Dimensions

76.3 x 137.6cm board; 118.8 x 179.5 x 7.0cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "Walter Withers/ 1896".
Credit
Purchased 1897
Accession number
617
Location
Not on display
Further information

This painting won the first Wynne Prize in 1897.

Bibliography (27)

John McDonald (Australia, b.1961) (Author), Art of Australia. Vol. 1: Exploration to Federation, Sydney, 2008, 367 (colour illus.), 614, 615. NOTE: Painting incorrectly attributed to John Ford Paterson, 'After the storm', also Collection of AGNSW.

'The no-so-lasting impressions of the Heidelberg School' by Margaret Simons, pg. 10., The Sunday Age 04 Jan 2004, 04 Jan 2004, 10 (colour illus.).

Ted Gott (Australia) (Author), Kelly Gellatly (Australia) (Author), Heidelberg to Heide: creating an Australian landscape 1850-1950, Bulleen, 2001, 34 (colour illus.), 35, 63.

Ron Radford (Australia, b.1949) (Author), Our country: Australian Federation landscape 1900-1914, Adelaide, 2001, 48.

Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 38, 67 (colour illus.), 302.

Wynne centenary 1897-1997: a selection of past winners from the Gallery's collection 1997, 1997, cover (colour illus.). not paginated

Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 18.

William Splatt (Author), Susan Bruce (Author), 100 masterpieces of Australian landscape painting, Melbourne, 1986, 124, 125 (colour illus.). plate no. 59

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales, 1986, 22 (illus.). cat.no. 12

Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Curator), Dinah Dysart (Australia) (Curator), The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition, Sydney, 1986, 6, 10, 12, 13 (colour illus.), 25.

Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 29, 30 (colour illus.).

Ron Radford (Australia, b.1949) (Author), Ladies in Landscapes, Ballarat, 1974.

Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 84 (colour illus.).

Alan McCulloch (Australia, b.1907, d.1992) (Author), John Henshaw (New Zealand; Australia, b.1929, d.2006) (Editor), The golden age of Australian painting - Impressionism and the Heidelberg school, Melbourne, 1969, 85 (colour illus.).

James Gleeson (Australia, b.1915, d.2008) (Author), John Henshaw (New Zealand; Australia, b.1929, d.2006) (Editor), Masterpieces of Australian painting, Melbourne, 1969, 84 (colour illus.).

Clive Turnbull (Author), Jean Campbell (Australia) (Author), Daniel Thomas (Author), Australian painting: colonial, impressionist, contemporary, Adelaide, 1962, 40. cat.no. 60

Author Unknown (Author), The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962: Special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1962. not paginated, cat.no. 65

'The Wynne and Sulman prizes' by Douglas Dundas, pg. 53-56., Art Gallery of New South Wales quarterly Jan 1961, Jan 1961, 54 (illus.).

Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), A selection of eighty-two reproductions mainly from the Australian collection and including examples from the British, French and Dutch [Art Gallery of New South Wales]., Sydney, 1959, (illus.). plate no. 2

Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 217.

Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), 100 years of Australian painting, Sydney, 1948, 5. cat.no. 8

William Moore (Australia, b.1868, d.1937) (Author), The story of Australian art from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today (Vol. 1), Sydney, 1934, 195, (illus.) [opposite pg. 195].

George Galway (Australia) (Author), Fifty years of Australian art 1879-1929, New South Wales, 1929, 53 (illus.).

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The Sydney Morning Herald 09 Sep 1897, 09 Sep 1897.

Studio 1897, 1897, 132 (illus.). titled 'A stormy winter's day'

Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 1.9.1891-4.5.1898 1891-1898, 1891-1898, 7 September 1897, 22 November 1897, 15 December 1897.

Exhibition history (16)

Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1897), Society Rooms, Union Chambers, 11 Sep 1897 -.

Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898.

100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948.

A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953.

Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), National Gallery of South Australia, 17 Mar 1962–31 Mar 1962.

Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Art Gallery of Western Australia, 23 Sep 1962–24 Oct 1962.

Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Tate Britain, 24 Jan 1963–03 Mar 1963.

Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 19 Dec 1986–01 Feb 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 06 Mar 1987–29 Mar 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Orange Regional Gallery, 10 Apr 1987–17 May 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 03 Jun 1987–20 Jun 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, 01 Jul 1987–26 Jul 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Albury Regional Gallery, 07 Aug 1987–06 Sep 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Broken Hill City Art Gallery, 18 Sep 1987–26 Oct 1987.

The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Tamworth City Gallery, 05 Nov 1987–13 Dec 1987.