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Details
- Date
- 1896
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 76.3 x 137.6 cm board; 118.8 x 179.5 x 7.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "Walter Withers/ 1896".
- Credit
- Purchased 1897
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 617
- Copyright
- Wynne Prize
- Winner - 1897
- Artist information
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Walter Withers
Works in the collection
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About
This painting won the first Wynne Prize in 1897 and was acquired by the Gallery in 1897.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1897), Society Rooms, Union Chambers, Sydney, 11 Sep 1897 -
Exhibition of Australian art in London (1898), Grafton Galleries, London, 02 Apr 1898–31 Jul 1898
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 17 Mar 1962–31 Mar 1962
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 23 Sep 1962–24 Oct 1962
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Tate Britain, England, 24 Jan 1963–03 Mar 1963
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 19 Dec 1986–01 Feb 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, 06 Mar 1987–29 Mar 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, 10 Apr 1987–17 May 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Griffith Regional Art Gallery, , 03 Jun 1987–20 Jun 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 01 Jul 1987–26 Jul 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Albury Regional Gallery, Albury, 07 Aug 1987–06 Sep 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill, 18 Sep 1987–26 Oct 1987
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987), Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 05 Nov 1987–13 Dec 1987
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Bibliography
Referenced in 27 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 84 (colour illus.).
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, A selection of eighty-two reproductions mainly from the Australian collection and including examples from the British, French and Dutch [Art Gallery of New South Wales], Sydney, 1959, (illus.). plate no. 2
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Helen Campbell, Wynne centenary 1897-1997: a selection of past winners from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, cover (colour illus.). not paginated
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, 'Australian Art in the Old Courts', pg. 24-37, Sydney, 1984, 29, 30 (colour illus.).
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Douglas Dundas, Art Gallery of New South Wales quarterly, 'The Wynne and Sulman prizes', pg. 53-56, Sydney, Jan 1961, 54 (illus.).
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Dinah Dysart, The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition, 'The public and critical response to the Wynne prize', pg. 15-22, Sydney, 1986, 6, 10, 12, 13 (colour illus.), 25.
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Mary Eagle, Heidelberg to Heide: creating an Australian landscape 1850-1950, 'Seeing Templestowe-Heidelberg', pg. 18-35, Bulleen, 2001, 34 (colour illus.), 35, 63.
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Deborah Edwards, Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Introduction', pg. 8-14, Sydney, 1986, 22 (illus.). cat.no. 12
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George Galway, Fifty years of Australian art 1879-1929, New South Wales, 1929, 53 (illus.).
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James Gleeson, Masterpieces of Australian painting, Melbourne, 1969, 84 (colour illus.).
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Alan McCulloch, The golden age of Australian painting - Impressionism and the Heidelberg school, Melbourne, 1969, 85 (colour illus.).
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John McDonald, Art of Australia. Vol 1: Exploration to Federation, ‘Some blessed hope’, pg. 611-637, Sydney, 2008, 367 (colour illus.), 614, 615. NOTE: Painting incorrectly attributed to John Ford Paterson, 'After the storm', also Collection of AGNSW.
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William Moore, The story of Australian art from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today (Vol. 1), 'Galleries', pg. 179-214, Sydney, 1934, 195, (illus.) [opposite pg. 195].
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1899, Sydney, 1899. cat.no. 259, Oil Paintings-Australian, titled 'The Storm'
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Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian', pg. 13-35, Sydney, 1988, 18.
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Ron Radford., Ladies in Landscapes, 'Ladies in landscapes', Ballarat, 1974.
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Ron Radford, Our country: Australian Federation landscape 1900-1914, 'Humble dusk to glorious day', pg. 48-56, Adelaide, 2001, 48.
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Margaret Simons, The Sunday Age, 'The no-so-lasting impressions of the Heidelberg School', pg. 10, Melbourne, 04 Jan 2004, 10 (colour illus.).
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Bernard Smith, 100 years of Australian painting, 'Foreword', pg. 2-4, Sydney, 1948, 5. cat.no. 8
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Bernard William Smith, A catalogue of Australian oil paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952, Sydney, 1953, 217.
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William Splatt and Susan Bruce, 100 masterpieces of Australian landscape painting, Melbourne, 1986, 124, 125 (colour illus.). plate no. 59
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Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Minutes 1.9.1891-4.5.1898, Sydney, 1891-1898, 7 September 1897, 22 November 1897, 15 December 1897.
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Clive Turnbull, Jean Campbell and Daniel Thomas AM, Australian painting: colonial, impressionist, contemporary, Adelaide, 1962, 40. cat.no. 60
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Vivienne Webb, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Golden age', pg. 37-38, Sydney, 2000, 38, 67 (colour illus.), 302.
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The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1962: Special exhibitions at the National Gallery of South Australia, 'Australian Paintings: Colonoial, Impressionist, Contemporary', Adelaide, 1962. not paginated, cat.no. 65
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Studio, London, 1897, 132 (illus.). titled 'A stormy winter's day'
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 09 Sep 1897.
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