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Details
- Other Title
- The dry lagoon
- Date
- 1911
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 66.2 x 99.1 cm sheet; 92.5 x 123.3 x 4.7 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., blue/grey watercolour, "J.J.HILDER/ 1911".
- Credit
- Purchased 1911
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 14
- Copyright
- Artist information
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J J Hilder
Works in the collection
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About
J J Hilder was a noted watercolourist, greatly admired by his peers. Lionel Lindsay wrote a tribute following Hilder's premature death from consumption in 1916:
"Hilder’s is the romance of colour, and for him the eye is sole and final arbiter. His method was one of elimination. Like Cotman, [British watercolourist John Sell Cotman 1782-1842] he added nothing to nature, but he subtracted much ... within the limits of a few square inches of paper he is a master, commanding his vision with ease and delicacy, and, with a rare and individual mind, stating that vision in terms of originality and beauty".
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2001
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Exhibition history
Shown in 13 exhibitions
Society of Artists Spring Exhibition (1911), Society Rooms, Queen Victoria Markets, Sydney, Nov 1911 -
J.J. Hilder memorial exhibition (1916), Society of Artists, Sydney, 14 Jul 1916 -
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 21 Apr 1966–15 May 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), City Hall, Toowoomba, Toowoomba, 23 May 1966–29 May 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 09 Jun 1966–03 Jul 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 14 Jul 1966–07 Aug 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 18 Aug 1966–11 Sep 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 22 Sep 1966–23 Oct 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Nov 1966–04 Dec 1966
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra, 15 Dec 1966–08 Jan 1967
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 19 Jan 1967–12 Feb 1967
Jesse Jewhurst Hilder anniversary exhibition (1966-1967), Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth, 23 Feb 1967–19 Mar 1967
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 03 Mar 1972–03 Apr 1972
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 04 May 1972–04 Jun 1972
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 04 Jul 1972–04 Aug 1972
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 05 Sep 1972–01 Oct 1972
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Nov 1972–17 Dec 1972
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 17 Jan 1973–11 Feb 1973
The Australian Landscape (1972-73), Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 01 Mar 1973–01 Apr 1973
The Australian Landscape 1802-1975, Cultural Palace of the Nationalities, Beijing, 02 Sep 1975–17 Sep 1975
The Australian Landscape 1802-1975, Kiangsu Art Gallery, China, 23 Sep 1975–07 Oct 1975
The Australian Landscape 1802-1975, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 Nov 1975–30 Nov 1975
Western European and Australian drawings XVI-XX century, from Australian museums, State Hermitage Museum, Russia, Dec 1978–Feb 1979
J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Aug 1981–04 Oct 1981
J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 04 Apr 1982–24 Apr 1982
J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 06 May 1982–30 May 1982
J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, 02 Jun 1982–14 Jul 1982
J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, 09 Sep 1982–26 Sep 1982
Twentieth century Australian watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Apr 1989–25 Jun 1989
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
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
Our country: Federation landscapes 1900-1914, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 Sep 2001–18 Nov 2001
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 Sep 2013–08 Dec 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 22 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 92 (colour illus.).
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Art Gallery of South Australia, The Australian landscape, Adelaide, 1972. cat.no. 30; titled 'The Dry Lagoon'
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Douglas Dundas., The Etruscan, 'The watercolours of J.J. Hilder', Sydney, Sep 1959, 19 (colour illus.).
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Anne Gray, Australia, 'Art nation: Australian landscape 1880-1920', pg. 146-183, London, 2013, 174 (colour illus.). cat.no. 114
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Anne Gray, Sydney Long: the spirit of the land, 'The mysterious Mr Long', pg. 15-41, Canberra, 2012, 21 (colour illus.).
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Sasha Grishin, Australian art: a history, 'Art of federation', pg. 174-185, Carlton, 2013, 184, 185 (colour illus.), 548, 562. plate no. 18.7
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Brett Hilder and Lloyd Rees, The heritage of J. J. Hilder, Sydney, 1966. cat.no. 180
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Captain Brett Hilder., Jesse Jewhurst Hilder: anniversary exhibition, 'Introduction', Brisbane, 1966. cat.no. 19; titled 'The Dry Lagoon'
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, 'Introduction: Painting in watercolour', pg. 8-16, Sydney, 1995, 11, 34 (colour illus.), 116. cat.no. 21
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Twentieth century Australian watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1989. cat.no. 32
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Frances McCarthy, Ian North and Daniel Thomas AM, Australian landscape 1802-1975, 'The Australian Landscape', Adelaide, 1972. cat.no. 30
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 22, 23 (colour illus.).
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Ian North., Special exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia: Seventh Adelaide Festival of Arts 1972, 'The Australian Landscape', Adelaide, 1972. cat.no. 29
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Barry Pearce, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Introduction: Convergent Spirits', pg. 10-19, Sydney, 2002, 15, 77 (colour illus.), 144, 147.
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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, 112 (colour illus.). cat.no. 61
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Michael Preston, Arts Club, '"Early impressions have a 'helluvalot' to answer for"', pg. 23-25, London, Autumn 2001, 24 (illus.).
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Ursula Prunster and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, J.J. Hilder and contemporaries, Sydney, 1981, (illus.). cat.no. 9
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Ron Radford, Our country: Australian Federation landscape 1900-1914, 'Introduction', pg. 16-22, Adelaide, 2001, 20, 21 (colour illus.), 154.
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William Splatt and Susan Bruce, 100 masterpieces of Australian landscape painting, Melbourne, 1986, 144, 145 (colour illus.). plate no. 69
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Daniel Thomas, Creating Australia: 200 years of art 1788-1988, 'Twentieth Century Art: Nature', pg.132, Melbourne, 1988, 132, 134 (colour illus.).
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Donald Williams, In our own image: the story of Australian art, Sydney, 2002, 61 (colour illus.).
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Donald Williams, In our own image: the story of Australian art, Sydney, 1995, 74 (colour illus.).
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