DOI Heft:
No. 250 (February 1914)
DOI Artikel:Ashton, Jas.: Notes on some Australian landscape painters
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0052
Australian Landscape Painters
his subject. He works every picture out in the open, with him there is no striving aftei prettiness, but he
for he is a great believer in painting under the skies, gives us his landscape as seen through the medium
He loves to paint the great silent and mysterious of a poetic nature which is clearly revealed in his
Australian Bush. In his picture The Golden very fine picture The Silent Gums, the best this
Splendour of the Bush, in the National Gallery at artist has painted. This picture, which is now in
Sydney, we have a picture that one is apt to think the National Gallery of Victoria at Melbourne, has
hard, but if it is looked at for a few minutes in the already appeared in these pages, and, like On the
right direction of vision this idea will soon be dis- Wallaby, now reproduced, is very Australian in
pelled. The picture called Clearing here repro- character.
duced was exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Frederick McCubbin, another Victorian artist,
Royal Art Society three or four years ago, and has done much to reveal the poetic side of the
represents a typical scene in the Australian Bush. Australian Bush. His works are distinguished by
This man feels deeply in the work he enjoys so their undoubted sincerity. In a series which in-
much, and the sincerity he puts into it is exemplified eludes The Pioneers (National Gallery, Melbourne),
in all his works. One of his latest pictures has for On the Wallaby Track (Sydney Gallery), A Bush
its subject Canberra, the place selected as the site Burial, and Down on his Licck he has given us
of the capital of the Commonwealth. faithful pictures of the rough life of the early
In Walter Withers we have a Victorian artist of settlers, and his work is always characterised by
great merit, who paints his pastorals with a sym- fidelity to subject. His Winter Sunlight was re-
pathetic and poetic feeling. His work is different produced in this magazine in 1909. Mr. McCubbin
from that of any other Australian artist. He does was at one time president of the Victorian Artists'
not get away from the influence of the French school Society, but he now belongs to the new Australian
in his feeling and technique, and he sees Australian Art Association which was started a few months
landscape through English .eyes. But his pictures ago by certain members of the older society who
are always full of charm, quiet in tone and subject; were not satisfied with the policy it was pursuing.
" SYDNEY HARBOUR FROM CREMORNE POINT "
' 48
BY WILL ASHTON
his subject. He works every picture out in the open, with him there is no striving aftei prettiness, but he
for he is a great believer in painting under the skies, gives us his landscape as seen through the medium
He loves to paint the great silent and mysterious of a poetic nature which is clearly revealed in his
Australian Bush. In his picture The Golden very fine picture The Silent Gums, the best this
Splendour of the Bush, in the National Gallery at artist has painted. This picture, which is now in
Sydney, we have a picture that one is apt to think the National Gallery of Victoria at Melbourne, has
hard, but if it is looked at for a few minutes in the already appeared in these pages, and, like On the
right direction of vision this idea will soon be dis- Wallaby, now reproduced, is very Australian in
pelled. The picture called Clearing here repro- character.
duced was exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Frederick McCubbin, another Victorian artist,
Royal Art Society three or four years ago, and has done much to reveal the poetic side of the
represents a typical scene in the Australian Bush. Australian Bush. His works are distinguished by
This man feels deeply in the work he enjoys so their undoubted sincerity. In a series which in-
much, and the sincerity he puts into it is exemplified eludes The Pioneers (National Gallery, Melbourne),
in all his works. One of his latest pictures has for On the Wallaby Track (Sydney Gallery), A Bush
its subject Canberra, the place selected as the site Burial, and Down on his Licck he has given us
of the capital of the Commonwealth. faithful pictures of the rough life of the early
In Walter Withers we have a Victorian artist of settlers, and his work is always characterised by
great merit, who paints his pastorals with a sym- fidelity to subject. His Winter Sunlight was re-
pathetic and poetic feeling. His work is different produced in this magazine in 1909. Mr. McCubbin
from that of any other Australian artist. He does was at one time president of the Victorian Artists'
not get away from the influence of the French school Society, but he now belongs to the new Australian
in his feeling and technique, and he sees Australian Art Association which was started a few months
landscape through English .eyes. But his pictures ago by certain members of the older society who
are always full of charm, quiet in tone and subject; were not satisfied with the policy it was pursuing.
" SYDNEY HARBOUR FROM CREMORNE POINT "
' 48
BY WILL ASHTON