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Title
Landscape with bent tree
circa 1958-circa 1959
Details
Date
circa 1958-circa 1959
Materials used
watercolour, gouache, brush and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
38.0 x 42.0 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, black ink "Fred Williams". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 1980
Location
Not on display
Accession number
10.1980
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Fred Williams
Landscape with bent tree
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
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
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
- Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat 1996–1996
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 1996–1996
Australian Painters Seeing Cézanne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Nov 1998–17 Jan 1999
Australian Collection Focus: Fred Williams gouaches, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Mar 2005–01 May 2005
Fred Williams: infinite horizons:
- National Gallery of Australia, Parkes 12 Aug 2011–06 Nov 2011
- Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne 07 Apr 2012–05 Aug 2012
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 31 Aug 2012–04 Nov 2012
Referenced in 6 publications
Bibliography
Deborah Hart, Fred Williams: infinite horizons, 'Resurrecting the gum tree', pg. 44-59, Canberra, 2011, 56, 59 (colour illus.), 229.
Barry Pearce, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Landscape and gesture', pg. 239-240, Sydney, 2000, 252 (colour illus.), 302.
Barry Pearce, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Australian Art', pg. 5-26, Sydney, 1981, 25 (illus.). cat.no. 46
Ursula Prunster (Curator), Australian painters; Seeing Cézanne, Sydney, 1998, 31. cat.no. 54
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 83 (colour illus.), 122. cat.no. 74
Barry Pearce and Haruo Arikawa, Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, Tokyo, 1992, 167 (colour illus.). cat.no. 110