DOI Artikel:
Ashton, Jas.: Notes on some Australian landscape painters
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Australian Landscape Painters
his subject. He works every picture out in the open,
for he is a great believer in painting under the skies.
He loves to paint the great silent and mysterious
Australian Bush. In his picture The Golden
Splendour of the Bush, in the National Gallery at
Sydney, we have a picture that one is apt to think
hard, but if it is looked at for a few minutes in the
right direction of vision this idea will soon be dis-
pelled. The picture called Clearing here repro-
duced was exhibited at the annual exhibition of the
Royal Art Society three or four years ago, and
represents a typical scene in the Australian Bush.
This man feels deeply in the work he enjoys so
much, and the sincerity he puts into it is exemplified
in all his works. One of his latest pictures has for
its subject Canberra, the place selected as the site
of the capital of the Commonwealth.
In Walter Withers we have a Victorian artist of
great merit, who paints his pastorals with a sym-
pathetic and poetic feeling. His work is different
from that of any other Australian artist. He does
not get away from the influence of the French school
in his feeling and technique, and he sees Australian
landscape through English eyes. But his pictures
are always full of charm, quiet in tone and subject;
with him there is no striving after prettiness, but he
gives us his landscape as seen through the medium
of a poetic nature which is clearly revealed in his
very fine picture The Silent Gums, the best this
artist has painted. This picture, which is now in
the National Gallery of Victoria at Melbourne, has
already appeared in these pages, and, like On the
Wallaby, now reproduced, is very Australian in
character.
Frederick McCubbin, another Victorian artist,
has done much to reveal the poetic side of the
Australian Bush. His works are distinguished by
their undoubted sincerity. In a series which in-
cludes The Pioneers Gallery, Melbourne),
On the Wallaby Track (Sydney Gallery), A Bush
Burial, and Down on his Luck he has given us
faithful pictures of the rough life of the early
settlers, and his work is always characterised by
fidelity to subject. His Winter Sunlight was re-
produced in this magazine in 1909. Mr. McCubbin
was at one time president of the Victorian Artists’
Society, but he now belongs to the new Australian
Art Association which was started a few months
ago by certain members of the older society who
were not satisfied with the policy it was pursuing.
his subject. He works every picture out in the open,
for he is a great believer in painting under the skies.
He loves to paint the great silent and mysterious
Australian Bush. In his picture The Golden
Splendour of the Bush, in the National Gallery at
Sydney, we have a picture that one is apt to think
hard, but if it is looked at for a few minutes in the
right direction of vision this idea will soon be dis-
pelled. The picture called Clearing here repro-
duced was exhibited at the annual exhibition of the
Royal Art Society three or four years ago, and
represents a typical scene in the Australian Bush.
This man feels deeply in the work he enjoys so
much, and the sincerity he puts into it is exemplified
in all his works. One of his latest pictures has for
its subject Canberra, the place selected as the site
of the capital of the Commonwealth.
In Walter Withers we have a Victorian artist of
great merit, who paints his pastorals with a sym-
pathetic and poetic feeling. His work is different
from that of any other Australian artist. He does
not get away from the influence of the French school
in his feeling and technique, and he sees Australian
landscape through English eyes. But his pictures
are always full of charm, quiet in tone and subject;
with him there is no striving after prettiness, but he
gives us his landscape as seen through the medium
of a poetic nature which is clearly revealed in his
very fine picture The Silent Gums, the best this
artist has painted. This picture, which is now in
the National Gallery of Victoria at Melbourne, has
already appeared in these pages, and, like On the
Wallaby, now reproduced, is very Australian in
character.
Frederick McCubbin, another Victorian artist,
has done much to reveal the poetic side of the
Australian Bush. His works are distinguished by
their undoubted sincerity. In a series which in-
cludes The Pioneers Gallery, Melbourne),
On the Wallaby Track (Sydney Gallery), A Bush
Burial, and Down on his Luck he has given us
faithful pictures of the rough life of the early
settlers, and his work is always characterised by
fidelity to subject. His Winter Sunlight was re-
produced in this magazine in 1909. Mr. McCubbin
was at one time president of the Victorian Artists’
Society, but he now belongs to the new Australian
Art Association which was started a few months
ago by certain members of the older society who
were not satisfied with the policy it was pursuing.