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Australian art -

Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as Australia's. With this thought in mind, know that this survey, as any must be, is tremendously limited in its breadth and depth.

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Also see Aboriginal art and Heidelberg school.

Examples:

John Glover (Australian, 1767-1849), Patterdale Landscape with Rainbow, c.1830-39, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Frederick McCubbin (Australian, 1855-1917), Lost, 1886, oil on canvas, 114.0 x 71.6 cm, National Gallery of Victoria. See Heidelberg school.

Frederick, McCubbin, Portrait of Robert Russell, c. 1890, oil on canvas lined on composition board 50.8 x 40.4 cm.

Tom Roberts (British-Australian, 1856-1931), Wood Splitters, c.1886, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Australia. Roberts was greatly influenced by the Impressionist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884). See Heidelberg school.

Tom Roberts, Mentone, 1887, oil on canvas, 51.0 x 76.5 cm, National Gallery of Victoria.

Tom Roberts, Bourke Street, Melbourne, oil on canvas lined on composition board, 51.2 x 76.7 cm.

Tom Roberts, Sketch for Opening of Federal Parliament, 1901, oil on academy board, 30.3 x 45.6 cm. There is also a key to Tom Roberts' historical painting, the Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth, 9th May, 1901, 45.5 x 55.5 cm.

Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867-1943), Golden Summer, Eaglemont, 1889, oil on canvas (81.3 x 152.6 cm), in its frame, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. See Heidelberg school.

Arthur Streeton, Near Heidelberg, 1890, oil on canvas, 53.4 x 43.1 cm, National Gallery of Victoria.

Charles Conder (Australian, 1868-1909). See Heidelberg school.

Hans Heysen (German-Australian, 1877-1968, in Australia from 1884), A Lord of the Bush, 1908, oil on canvas, 134.0 x 103.0 cm, National Gallery of Victoria. Heysen is among those influenced by the Heidelberg school..

Hans Heysen, Guardian of the Brachina Gorge, 1937, watercolor, 48.2 x 62.4 cm (image), National Gallery of Victoria.

Gracie Green (Australian, NSW, Nangala language group, contemporary), Wild Seeds Dreaming, no date, dream map, acrylic on canvas, 92 x 61cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. See Aboriginal art.

Willy Tjungurrayi (Australian, NSW, Pintupi language group, contemporary), Tingari Story, 1986, dream map, polymer on linen, 360 x 240 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. See Aboriginal art.

Rover Thomas (Australian, NSW, Kukaja/Wangajunka language group, contemporary), Ngarin Janu Country 1988, 1994, 100 x 140 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. See Aboriginal art.

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