Title
Art students
1895
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Melbourne
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Australia
- Date
- 1895
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 182.9 x 114.3 cm stretcher; 219.0 x 148.0 x 16.0 cm frame; 181.0 x 110.0 cm sight edge
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, black oil "E.Phillips Fox / 95".
- Credit
- Purchased 1943
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 7319
- Copyright
- Artist information
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E Phillips Fox
Works in the collection
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About
'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.
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Places
Where the work was made
Melbourne
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Exhibition history
Shown in 16 exhibitions
Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, London, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898
Paris Salon, 1910, Paris Salon, Paris, 1910–1910
Pictures by the late E. Phillips Fox, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 29 Feb 1916–Mar 1916
Oil paintings by E. Phillips Fox and Ethel Carrick (1925), Anthony Hordern & Sons, Ltd., Sydney, 01 Oct 1925–15 Oct 1925
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948
E. Phillips Fox Interstate Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Mar 1949–24 Apr 1949
E. Phillips Fox Interstate Exhibition, Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, 12 May 1949–Jun 1949
E. Phillips Fox Interstate Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 23 Jun 1949–Jul 1949
E. Phillips Fox Interstate Exhibition, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 Oct 1949–Nov 1949
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 12 Mar 1951–31 Mar 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 09 Apr 1951–28 Apr 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Jun 1951–21 Jul 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 06 Aug 1951–01 Sep 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 Sep 1951–20 Oct 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 12 Nov 1951–10 Dec 1951
The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games (1956), National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 18 Nov 1956–15 Dec 1956
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 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, 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
The Art of E. Phillips Fox, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 09 Nov 1994–30 Jan 1995
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 16 Apr 2011–07 Aug 2011
Australian impressionists in France, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 15 Jun 2013–06 Oct 2013
She-oak and sunlight: Australian Impressionism, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 02 Apr 2021–22 Aug 2021
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 34 publications
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Anthony Hordern & Sons, Ltd., 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
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 83 (colour illus.).
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Leigh Astbury, Sunlight and shadow: Australian impressionist painters 1880-1900, 'Painters and Places', pg. 6-24 Chapter one, Rushcutters Bay, 1989, 6 (colour illus.), 16 (colour illus.), 17. plate no. 7. The image appears in detail.
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Herbert Badham, A study of Australian art, Sydney, 1949, (illus.). plate no. 23
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Herbert Badham, A gallery of Australian art, Sydney, 1954, (illus.). plate no. 16
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Ian Burn, National life and landscape - Australian painting 1900-1940, Sydney, 1990, 57.
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Jane Clark, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Rupert Bunny / E. Phillips Fox', pg. 20-31, Sydney, 2002, 22, 30 (colour illus.), 31, 143, 147.
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Aedeen Cremin (Editor), 1901: Australian life at federation: an illustrated chronicle, 'A changing society', pg. 88-103, Sydney, 2001, 92, 93 (colour illus.).
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Anne Gérard, Look, 'Oz arts: our painters in the Parsi Salons', pg. 37-39, Sydney, Dec 2006-Jan 2007, 39.
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James Gleeson, Masterpieces of Australian painting, Melbourne, 1969, 86, 87 (colour illus.). plate no. 28
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Angela Goddard, Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox, 'An artistic marriage', pg. 17-26, Brisbane, 2011, 17, 18 (colour illus.), 104 (colour illus.), 154.
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Sasha Grishin, Australian art: a history, 'Australian expatriates of the Edwardian period in France', pg. 148-159, Carlton, 2013, 152 (colour illus.), 153, 548, 566. plate no. 16.3
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Sasha Grishin, Art Monthly Australia, 'Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox', pg. 80-81, Canberra, Aug 2011, 80 (colour illus.), 81.
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Victoria Hammond and Juliette Peers, Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg era, Hawthorn East, 1992, 20 (illus.).
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Pat Hoffie, Brought to Light: Australian Art 1850–1965 from the Queensland Art Gallery collection, 'Restless Mind, Still Lives. A.M.E. Bale Leisure moments', pg. 84-87, Brisbane, 1998, 86, 87 (illus.).
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. 102-181, Sydney, 1999, 120 (colour illus.).
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Bruce James, The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Milking works for a moment in the sun', pg. 13, Sydney, 03 Apr 2002, 13. Review of 'Parallel Visions' exhibition
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John McDonald, Art of Australia. Vol 1: Exploration to Federation, 'Individual and national feeling', pg. 545-610, Sydney, 2008, 595 (colour illus.), 596, 606.
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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, 107 (colour illus.). cat.no. 56
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Ursula Prunster, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Home and abroad', pg. 73-74, Sydney, 2000, 78, 79 (colour illus.), 300.
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Andrew Sayers, Australian art, 'What should Australian artists paint? 1885-1900', pg. 79-96, Oxford, 2001, 78 (colour illus., detail), 92 (colour illus.). plate no. 51
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Bernard Smith, 100 years of Australian painting, 'Foreword', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 1948, 6. cat.no. 12
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Bernard William Smith, Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788, 'Impressionism in Australia', pg. 112-145, South Melbourne, 1979, 139 (illus.), 140. plate no. 50
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Bernard William Smith and Terry Smith, Australian painting 1788-1990, 'Leviticus 1913-32', pg. 167-204, South Melbourne, 1991, 148, 169 (colour illus.), 560. cat.no. 96
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William Splatt and Barbara Burton, 100 masterpieces of Australian painting, Adelaide, 1973, 82, 83 (colour illus.). plate no. 38
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Alex Taylor, Perils of the studio: inside the artistic affairs of bohemian Melbourne, 'Studio visitors', pg. 137-163, North Melbourne, 2007, 140 (colour illus.). figure 128
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Laurie Thomas (Editor), Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Sydney, 1951, 36. cat.no. 79
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Susan Venn, Roy and Matilda - The Golden Locket, Canterbury, 1994, (colour illus.).
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Bridget Whitelaw, Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond, 'Melbourne's answer in the 90s - "Charterisville"', pg. 171-174, Melbourne, 1985, 178, 179 (colour illus.).
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Ruth Zubans, Australian art and architecture: essays presented to Bernard Smith, 'Emanuel Phillips Fox: St Ives and the impact of British art, 1890-1892', pg. 134-149, Melbourne, 1980, 142, 144, 248.
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Ruth Zubans, Painted women - Australian artists in Europe at the turn of the century, 'Mr and Mrs E Phillips Fox', pg. 15-18, Western Australia, 1998, 15-16.
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Catalogue of pictures by the late E. Phillips Fox, Melbourne, 1916, n.p. (illus.) as 'The art students'. cat.no. 30
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Author Unknown, E. Phillips Fox: address book, Melbourne, 1994, (illus.).
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The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962: Special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, 'Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary', Adelaide, 1962. not paginated, cat.no. 69
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