National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Ocean to Outback: Australian Landscape Painting 1850–1950

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2007-09-21

  Elise BLUMANN, Storm on the Swan 1946

Elise Blumann painted Perth’s Swan River and the native melaleuca trees of the region many times. Escaping the Nazi regime that devastated much of Europe, German-born Blumann came to Perth with her husband and two children in 1938. Educated at the Berl... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Tom ROBERTS, A Sunday afternoon [A Sunday afternoon picnic at Box Hill] c.1886

By 1882 a railway had been constructed between Melbourne and the township of Box Hill, and in 1885 Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Louis Abrahams first visited the area to paint. The artists set up camp on land owned by a local farmer and friend to... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Eugene VON GUERARD, Ferntree Gully in the Dandenong Ranges 1857

For German-born artist Eugene von Guérard the Australian landscape represented a real, lived experience and a vehicle for evoking personal and contemplative ideas. His remarkable image of a fern-tree gully in the Dandenong Ranges, some 40 kilometres ea... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Margaret PRESTON, Flying over the Shoalhaven River [Flying over the Shoalhaven] 1942

Margaret Preston was used to seeing the earth from the air. By 1942 the artist had visited Europe and North America, and had travelled extensively throughout much of Asia, the Pacific Islands, Central and South America and Australia. During her travels... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Elioth GRUNER, Murrumbidgee Ranges, Canberra 1934

In 1934 Elioth Gruner made one of several visits to the Canberra region where he painted Murrumbidgee Ranges, Canberra. In 1928 Gruner had purchased a car, which gave him the means to travel throughout the countryside on painting trips. He first visite... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Frederick MCCUBBIN, Girl in forest, Mount Macedon [(Landscape with child) (Mount Macedon landscape with girl)] 1913

In Girl in forest, Mount Macedon Frederick McCubbin revisits a central theme in his oeuvre: the activities of children in the Australian bush. He had previously painted scenes of children lost in the bush – narratives of innocence and vulnerability wit... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Arthur STREETON, The selector's hut (Whelan on the log) [The selector's hut] 1890

The selector’s hut (Whelan on the log) is an iconic image of the ‘pioneering spirit’ that underpinned Australian nationalist attitudes of the late nineteenth century. Although most Australians lived in coastal cities and towns, it was the bush that was... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Sidney NOLAN, Inland Australia [Central Australian landscape] 1950

We leaned over in our seats and straining down, our foreheads pressed against the glass windows, found our own land and heard its voice alone. Cynthia Nolan 19621 Between 1947 and 1950 Sidney Nolan spent months travelling through remote areas of Austr... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Jeffrey SMART, Wallaroo 1951

Inspired by the South Australian copper-mining town, Wallaroo is an atmospheric and mysterious painting. Located on the Spencer Gulf coast, Jeffrey Smart visited Wallaroo in 1951 and made a number of watercolour studies of the town’s buildings, beach, ... 		  National Gallery of Australia author
2007-09-21

  Hans HEYSEN, n the Flinders - Far North 1951

For almost three decades the landscape of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia provided inspiration for Hans Heysen. Known for his imagery of Australian gum trees, the artist was forty-nine when he first visited the Flinders Ranges. The scenery of th... 		  National Gallery of Australia author