Title
Passing shower
(1937)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Passing showers
- Date
- (1937)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 64.5 x 77.0 x 2.2 cm stretcher; 86.8 x 99.7 x 7.7 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, brown oil "A.STREETON.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1937
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 6393
- Copyright
- Wynne Prize
- - 1937
- Artist information
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Arthur Streeton
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About
By 1937 when this was painted, Streeton had lived through extraordinary world events since his early successes: boom-and-bust cycles, prolonged drought and times of abundance, Australian Federation, the First World War, the Spanish flu pandemic, bushfires and bush recovery, the Great Depression. By the late 1930s Streeton was anxious that the world was irrevocably heading to war again, yet in a small group of late paintings he captured the joy he still felt from the landscape near his home in the Dandenong Ranges.
Streeton painted directly in front of this view, with the observational naturalism of the committed plein-air painter he had been since the 1880s. The technical virtuosity he had achieved by mid-career has receded, replaced instead by the vitality that painters often arrive at late in life. It is a scene that celebrates the enduring natural world, with every moment being followed by another, of rain passing and life renewed. It seems apposite for our moment.
This work was a finalist in the 1937 Wynne Prize and was acquired by the Gallery in 1937.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Exhibition of pictures by Sir Arthur Streeton, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, Apr 1937–Unknown
Wynne Art Prize, 1937, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Feb 1938–Mar 1938
Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 01 Oct 1941–26 Oct 1941
Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17 Nov 1941–31 Dec 1941
Art of Australia 1788-1941, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ottawa, 15 Jan 1942–15 Feb 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Yale University Art Gallery, United States of America, 02 Mar 1942–23 Mar 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 03 Apr 1942–15 May 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Wilmington, 01 Jun 1942–27 Jun 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 10 Jul 1942–27 Aug 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Toledo Museum of Art, United States of America, 06 Sep 1942–27 Sep 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, 05 Oct 1942–02 Nov 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Cleveland Museum of Art, United States of America, 09 Nov 1942–07 Dec 1942
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Detroit Institiute of Arts, Detroit, 01 Jan 1943–29 Jan 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 05 Feb 1943–28 Feb 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, 07 Mar 1943–28 Mar 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, 08 Apr 1943–05 May 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Fort Wayne Art School and Museum, Fort Wayne, 12 May 1943–31 May 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 07 Sep 1943–08 Oct 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, 20 Oct 1943–17 Nov 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Dallas, 28 Nov 1943–26 Dec 1943
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Abilene Museum of Fine Arts, Abilene, 10 Jan 1944–07 Feb 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Heard Museum, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, Phoenix, 21 Feb 1944–20 Mar 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 04 Apr 1944–07 May 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Rosicrucian Egyptian Oriental Museum, San Jose, 19 May 1944–16 Jun 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Hamline University, St Paul, 01 Dec 1944–17 Dec 1944
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Society Liberal Arts, Joslyn Memorial, Omaha, 06 Jan 1945–27 Jan 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, United States of America, 06 Feb 1945–27 Feb 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Quincy Art Club, Quincy, 09 Mar 1945–30 Mar 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, 13 Apr 1945–04 May 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 14 May 1945–04 Jun 1945
Art of Australia 1788-1941, North Texas State Teachers' College, Denton, 14 Jun 1945–05 Jul 1945
David Jones' wool and sheep show, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 25 May 1959–06 Jun 1959
Streeton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 2020–14 Feb 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Art of Australia 1788-1941, New York, 1941, 34, (illus.). cat.no. 45
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