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#0054
Australian Landscape Painters
Mr. Withers is also among those who have joined
the new body.
Will Ashton belongs to the younger generation of
Australian artists ; his reputation has leapt forward
very quickly, until to-day he stands as one of the
leading painters of the Commonwealth, though
only just over thirty. He is represented in the
National Galleries of New South Wales, Victoria,
South Australia and Western Australia. His
canvases are fine in composition, and always
dignified ; he paints with the brush of a painter of
maturer years. He always sees the bigness of his
subject, and the breath of nature pervades his
work. One of his pictures, a fine landscape of the
Australian Bush, has just been purchased for the
Western Australian Art Gallery. His marine sub-
jects, to which he is now devoting much attention,
are distinguished by bold technique, luminous
colour and fine movement.
Albert J. Hanson, whose work is known all over
the Commonwealth, is represented in the National
Gallery of New South Wales by five large water-
colours, and other State art galleries are enriched
by his pictures, which are all Australian in character,
and painted with a rare fidelity and truth to nature.
He delights in painting the heat of the Australian
tun, and one feels that he paints with the true
feeling of the artist. In his picture Fair Droving
Weather one feels the very heat of the day and
imagines the smell of the eucalyptus. He paints in
oil as well as water-colours.
Hans Heysen, like the other artists, is a painter of
light, which is one of the themes for nearly all his
works. He paints the bush land with a highly sensi-
tive and poetic temperament, and his work is charac-
terised by originality sincere and dignified. He is
represented in several Australian galleries, and re-
productions of his works have from time to time
appeared in this magazine.
Australia owes a debt of gratitude to these great
pioneers of art who have breathed into their work
the pure and undefiled love of their profession; by
the fine fruit of their labours they are building up
a national art of pure Australian life, and are
dedicating their work to posterity as a proof that
Australia is not behind other nations in producing
men who shall leave their footprints on the sands
of time. Jas. Ashton.
" MID-DAY REST" BY WILL ASHTON
5°
Mr. Withers is also among those who have joined
the new body.
Will Ashton belongs to the younger generation of
Australian artists ; his reputation has leapt forward
very quickly, until to-day he stands as one of the
leading painters of the Commonwealth, though
only just over thirty. He is represented in the
National Galleries of New South Wales, Victoria,
South Australia and Western Australia. His
canvases are fine in composition, and always
dignified ; he paints with the brush of a painter of
maturer years. He always sees the bigness of his
subject, and the breath of nature pervades his
work. One of his pictures, a fine landscape of the
Australian Bush, has just been purchased for the
Western Australian Art Gallery. His marine sub-
jects, to which he is now devoting much attention,
are distinguished by bold technique, luminous
colour and fine movement.
Albert J. Hanson, whose work is known all over
the Commonwealth, is represented in the National
Gallery of New South Wales by five large water-
colours, and other State art galleries are enriched
by his pictures, which are all Australian in character,
and painted with a rare fidelity and truth to nature.
He delights in painting the heat of the Australian
tun, and one feels that he paints with the true
feeling of the artist. In his picture Fair Droving
Weather one feels the very heat of the day and
imagines the smell of the eucalyptus. He paints in
oil as well as water-colours.
Hans Heysen, like the other artists, is a painter of
light, which is one of the themes for nearly all his
works. He paints the bush land with a highly sensi-
tive and poetic temperament, and his work is charac-
terised by originality sincere and dignified. He is
represented in several Australian galleries, and re-
productions of his works have from time to time
appeared in this magazine.
Australia owes a debt of gratitude to these great
pioneers of art who have breathed into their work
the pure and undefiled love of their profession; by
the fine fruit of their labours they are building up
a national art of pure Australian life, and are
dedicating their work to posterity as a proof that
Australia is not behind other nations in producing
men who shall leave their footprints on the sands
of time. Jas. Ashton.
" MID-DAY REST" BY WILL ASHTON
5°