#heidelberg school

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Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (1867-1943) - Out of the purple mountains it gets its waters

Oil on canvas on composition board. Painted in 1928.

19.7 x 29.9 inches, 50 x 76 cm. Estimate: Aus$150,000-200,000.

Sold Deutscher & Hackett, Sydney, 4 May 2022 for Aus$552,270 incl B.P.

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Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (1867-1943): Approaching Storm

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Tom Roberts - Evening Train to Hawthorn

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Boat on beach, Queenscliff by Tom Roberts 1887. 

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On the Wallaby Track, Frederick McCubbin, 1896

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″The Artist's Camp” (1886)

by Tom Roberts (1856-1931)

[the-paintrist]

David Davies - Under the Burden and Heat of the Day, 1890

oil on canvas on paperboard, 117 x 168 cm

at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

David Davies (21 May 1864 – 26 March 1939) was an Australian artist who was associated with the Heidelberg School, the first significant Western art movement in Australia.

Born and raised in Ballarat, Victoria, Davies attended art classes at the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries. Later one of his paintings, 'The Burden and Heat of the Day', was purchased by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Davies subsequently attended the National Gallery School in Melbourne studying under McCubbin and G.F. Folingsby from 1886 - 1890. During his time at the National Gallery Schools, he often visited Streeton at the old Mount Eagle estate farmhouse owned by Charles Davies, his future wife's brother, and it was here at the National Gallery School that James Oddie, the private collector who purchased and then later sold "The Burden and Heat of the Day" to the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, recognized Davies's skill after he was runner-up in the National Gallery School Travelling Scholarship.

Between 1893 and 1897 Davies painted his chief examples that are now currently in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Davies held a one-man exhibition in Melbourne in May 1926 which was reported to have been successful.

In 1932 Davies moved to Looe, Cornwall, England, where he died on 26 March 1939.

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Clara Southern (Australian, 1860-1940) 

Twilight, Warrandyte 

Watercolour,  28.5 x 36.5 cm

Australian Art Sales Digest  works

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Withers' Way

Withers’ Way

They called him “The Orderly Colonel”. It was a name given to him affectionately by his fellow artists as a passing nod to his organized ways. They started out as a loose association in the mid ’80s in what was then semi-rural Box Hill, experimenting with plein air painting, but as suburbia overtook the artists’ camps along the Gardiners Creek they relocated to a new camp on “Mount Eagle”, at an…

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On this day, 150 years ago, on 8th April 1867,  Arthur Streeton, was born.

Arthur Streeton was an Australian landscape painter and key member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionism.

He joined fellow artist Tom Roberts  Frederick McCubbin, and later Charles Conder, at Box Hill and Heidelberg in Victoria where painting in the open air, they worked on representing Australia’s light, heat, space and distance.

After the Art Gallery of New South Wales bought his painting ‘Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide’ 1890, Streeton moved to Sydney in the early 1890s where he painted views of the city, harbour and beaches and established an artists’ camp in Mosman. He painted Fire’s on in 1891, an evocative work of the country’s light, heat and dust . His growing critical success culminated in a solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1896.

Streeton travelled to London in 1897, where he lived for the next three decades, with frequent return visits to Australia. Enlisting in the Australian army medical corps in 1915, he was appointed an official war artist in 1918. In paintings such as Villers Bretonneux, he documented the Western Front, focusing on the devastated terrain rather than the drama of human suffering.

Returning to Victoria in 1923, Streeton won the Wynne Prize in 1928, and in 1929 became art critic for the newspaper The Argus. He was knighted in 1937 and died at his property in Olinda, Victoria, in 1943. (Biography: courtesy - Art Gallery of NSW)

The State Library of New South Wales  holds two of his sketchbooks and   Letters (12) received, 1907-1929 mainly concerning artists and art .

Original sketchbook : mainly figure studies, 1888-1889 / Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton

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Tom Roberts (Australian, 1856-1931) - Trafalgar Square, c. 1904

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Tom Roberts - In a corner on the Macintyre (Thunderbolt in an encounter with police at Paradise Creek)

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Penleigh Boyd (1890-1923) - Ghost Gum at Kangaroo Flat

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1921.

47.6 x 59.6 inches, 121 x 151.5 cm. Estimate: AU$220,000-280,000.

Sold Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 27 Aug 2007 for AU$264,000 incl B.P.

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Fossickers by Walter Withers 1893.

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"Blue Bay and Olympic Mountains” (1923)

by Arthur Streeton (1867-1943)

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Clara Southern - The Road to Warrandyte - 1905-10

Clara Southern (3 October 1861 - 15 December 1940) was an Australian artist associated with the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism.

Southern was born in Kyneton, Victoria, in 1861. She studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School under George Folingsby and Frederick McCubbin. When in Melbourne she shared a studio at Grosvenor Chambers, 9 Collins Street, with Jane Sutherland from 1888. By 1908 she had established an artistic community of younger landscape painters at Warrandyte, a township on the Yarra about 30 kilometres from Melbourne. The community included Penleigh Boyd and Harold Herbert. Although her work was admired by the artists of her time, they were not very well known. Southern married John Arthur Flinn in 1905 but usually exhibited under her original name.

An Old Bee Farm, held by the National Gallery of Victoria is one of her better known works. It was one of 56 paintings included in Lloyd O'Neil's Classic Australian Paintings, and was used as the cover illustration for Kay Schaffer's 1988 book Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition.