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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, Canberra 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.
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 83 (colour illus.), 122. cat.no. 74
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 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
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