E Phillips Fox
(Australia, France 12 Mar 1865–08 Oct 1915)
- Title
- Art students
- Place of origin
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Melbourne →
Victoria →
Australia
- Year
- 1895
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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182.9 x 114.3cm stretcher; 204.0 x 134.0 x 9.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "E.Phillips Fox / 95".
- Credit
- Purchased 1943
- Accession number
- 7319
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'Art students' was set at the Melbourne Art School in Bourke Street, which E Phillips Fox co-founded with Tudor St George Tucker when Fox returned from Europe in 1892. It was considered a groundbreaking work for its unconventional vertical, cropped composition and its frank naturalism. The
informal poses and paint-splattered smocks of its female students and the messy realism of its littered floor were considered ‘unfeminine’ when the work was first exhibited in Melbourne in 1895.'Art students' is a vivid demonstration of Fox’s compositional and colouristic skills. Its grand-scale informality also presents an alternative to the heroic ‘national’ and masculine subjects of Australian painting in the 1890s.
- Bibliography (32)
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Angela Goddard (Author), Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox, Brisbane, 2011, 17, 18 (colour illus.), 104 (colour illus.), 154.
John McDonald (Australia, b.1961) (Author), Art of Australia. Vol. 1: Exploration to Federation, Sydney, 2008, 595 (colour illus.), 596, 606.
Alex Taylor (Australia) (Author), Perils of the studio: inside the artistic affairs of bohemian Melbourne, North Melbourne, 2007, 140 (colour illus.). figure 128
'Oz arts: our painters in the Parsi Salons' by Anne Gérard, pg. 37-39., Look Dec 2006-Jan 2007, Dec 2006-Jan 2007, 39.
'Milking works for a moment in the sun' by Bruce James, pg. 13., The Sydney Morning Herald 03 Apr 2002, 03 Apr 2002, 13. Review of 'Parallel Visions' exhibition
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Domain, 2002, 22, 30 (colour illus.), 31, 143, 147.
'A changing society', pg. 88-103., 1901: Australian life at federation: an illustrated chronicle 2001, 2001, 92, 93 (colour illus.).
Andrew Sayers (Australia, b.1957) (Author), Australian art, Oxford, 2001, 78 (colour illus., detail), 92 (colour illus.). plate no. 51
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 78, 79 (colour illus.), 300.
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 120 (colour illus.).
Anne Gray (Australia, b.1947) (Author), Helen Carroll (Author), Ann Galbally (Australia) (Author), Janda Gooding (Australia) (Author), Barbara Kane (Author), Ruth Zubans (Author), Painted women - Australian artists in Europe at the turn of the century, Western Australia, 1998, 15-16.
Lynne Seear (Australia) (Editor), Julie Ewington (Australia) (Editor), Brought to light: Australian Art 1850-1965, South Brisbane, 1998, 86, 87 (illus.).
Susan Venn (Author), Roy and Matilda - The Golden Locket, Canterbury, 1994, (colour illus.).
Author Unknown (Author), E. Phillips Fox: address book, Melbourne, 1994, (illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Patricia McDonald (Editor), Haruo Arikawa (Japan) (Author), Chikashi Kitazaki (Japan) (Editor), Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 107 (colour illus.). cat.no. 56
Victoria Hammond (Author), Juliet Peers (Author), Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg era, Hawthorn East, 1992, 20 (illus.).
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Terry Smith (Author), Australian painting 1788-1990, South Melbourne, 1991, 148, 169 (colour illus.), 560. cat.no. 96
Ian Burn (Australia; United States of America, b.1939, d.1993) (Author), National life and landscape - Australian painting 1900-1940, Sydney, 1990, 57.
Leigh Astbury (b.1950) (Author), Sunlight and shadow: Australian impressionist painters 1880-1900, Rushcutters Bay, 1989, 6 (colour illus.), 16 (colour illus.), 17. plate no. 7. The image appears in detail.
Jane Clark (Australia) (Author), Bridget Whitelaw (Author), Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond, Melbourne, 1985, 178, 179 (colour illus.).
Terry Smith (Editor), Anthony Bradley (b.1936) (Editor), Australian art and architecture: essays presented to Bernard Smith, Melbourne, 1980, 142, 144, 248.
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788, South Melbourne, 1979, 139 (illus.), 140. plate no. 50
William Splatt (Author), Barbara Burton (Author), 100 masterpieces of Australian painting, Adelaide, 1973, 82, 83 (colour illus.). plate no. 38
Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 83 (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, 86, 87 (colour illus.). plate no. 28
Author Unknown (Author), The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962: Special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1962. not paginated, cat.no. 69
Herbert Badham (Australia, b.1899, d.1961) (Author), A gallery of Australian art, Sydney, 1954, (illus.). plate no. 16
Laurie Thomas (Australia, b.1915, d.1974) (Editor), Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Sydney, 1951, 36. cat.no. 79
Herbert Badham (Australia, b.1899, d.1961) (Author), A study of Australian art, Sydney, 1949, (illus.). plate no. 23
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, 6. cat.no. 12
Anthony Hordern & Sons, Ltd. (Australia), Catalogue of an Exhibition of Oil Paintings by the Late E. Phillips Fox and of Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox), Sydney, 1925. cat.no. 5; priced 300 guineas
'Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox' by Sasha Grishin, pg. 80-81., Art Monthly Australia Aug 2011, Aug 2011, 80 (colour illus.), 81.
- Exhibition history (19)
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Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898.
Paris Salon, 1910, Paris Salon, 1910–1910.
Pictures by the late E. Phillips Fox, Athenaeum Gallery, 29 Feb 1916 -.
Oil paintings by E. Phillips Fox and Ethel Carrick (1925), Anthony Hordern & Sons, Ltd., 01 Oct 1925–15 Oct 1925.
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948.
E. Phillips Fox Interstate Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mar 1949–Apr 1949.
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 12 Mar 1951–31 Mar 1951.
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 09 Apr 1951–28 Apr 1951.
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Jun 1951–21 Jul 1951.
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queensland Art Gallery, 06 Aug 1951–01 Sep 1951.
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 24 Sep 1951–20 Oct 1951.
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 12 Nov 1951–10 Dec 1951.
The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games (1956), National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], 18 Nov 1956–15 Dec 1956.
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), National Gallery of South Australia, 17 Mar 1962–31 Mar 1962.
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 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, 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992.
The Art of E. Phillips Fox, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 09 Nov 1994–30 Jan 1995.
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003.
Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, Queensland Art Gallery, 16 Apr 2011–07 Aug 2011.
