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Details
- Date
- (circa 1945)
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour on white watercolour paper
- Dimensions
- 58.5 x 68.8 x 2.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, grey watercolour "KENNETH MACQUEEN". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Carlyle Greenwell 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- WA1.1961
- Copyright
- © Estate of Kenneth Macqueen
- Artist information
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Kenneth Macqueen
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About
'I try in my work to express the joy of living ... All my life I have experienced thrills of happiness on noting the sweep and colour of a hill, the curve of a wave, the dazzling whiteness of clouds ... the thousand and one arrangements and colour nuances which the eye registers as its surveys the daily scene.'
– Kenneth Macqueen, 1948Kenneth Macqueen’s work celebrates the undulations of the Darling Downs landscape and the coastal regions of Moreton Bay in south-eastern Queensland, where he settled to farm the land in 1922. A modernist in temperament and outlook, his simplified forms were rendered with an emphasis on design and rhythm, and were celebrated for their lyrical and decorative qualities. Exclusively a watercolourist, Macqueen applied the transparent pigments of his medium with great skill to emphasise sunlight and shadow in response to the underlying shapes and patterns of nature and the sunny Queensland climate.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Kenneth Macqueen, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 25 Oct 1945–08 Nov 1945
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Typically? Australian, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 15 May 1998–28 Jun 1998
Kenneth Macqueen retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 01 Nov 2007–05 May 2008
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Samantha Littley, Making it modern: the watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen, Brisbane, 2007, 119 (colour illus.), 147.
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