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Details
- Other Title
- View onto the Shoalhaven
- Date
- circa 1946
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 39.0 x 29.0 cm sight; 52.7 x 42.5 x 3.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, grey oil "F ROBERTSHAW". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the David George Wilson Bequest for Australian Art 2015
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 122.2015
- Copyright
- © Estate of Freda Robertshaw
- Artist information
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Freda Robertshaw
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About
Freda Robertshaw graduated from the commercial art course at East Sydney Technical College in 1937 having studied drawing, life drawing, oil painting, watercolour and lettering with Frank Medworth, Douglas Dundas, Herbert Badham, William Dobell, Arthur Murch, Charles Meere and others. She apprenticed herself to Charles Meere, her former life drawing teacher, and trained in his neo-classical style. Her feminised version of his 'Australian beach pattern' (1940) from the AGNSW collection, 'Australian beach scene' (1940) demonstrates her great mastering of Meere’s style. Her 'Standing nude (self portrait)' (1944) is another career highlight, and is the earliest nude self-portrait exhibited by a female artist in Australia.
Robertshaw left Meere’s studio after this work was painted and also left behind figurative painting. She returned to her first loves – landscape and flower painting, and her painting style also changed, becoming looser and post-Impressionistic in style.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Contemporary Art Society Eighth Annual Interstate Exhibition (1946), Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 12 Nov 1946–28 Nov 1946
Sotheby's Australia, fine Asian, Australian & European arts & design, , , 18 Jun 2013–18 Jun 2013
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Contemporary Art Society (New South Wales), Eighth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Art Society (1946), Sydney, 1946, n.pag.. cat.no. 161; priced 16 gns.
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Leanne Santoro, Look, Sun, sea and standing tall, Sydney, Oct 2015, 18, 20 (colour illus.).
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Sotheby's Australia, Sotheby's Australia, fine Asian, Australian & European arts & design, Melbourne, 2013, 42-43 (colour illus.). lot no. 121; estimated price $2000-4000
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