Property of Margaret McCardell

Description:

Fred Williams (Australian, 1927-1982), Loxton Landscape, Gouache on Paper, signed lower left, the paper with embossed mark lower right 'eritagoe paper'. Frame size: 31 1/4 in. x 39 3/4 in. Provenance: according to the consignor this was purchased in the mid 1970's from Faye and Arthur Simpson who were art dealers in Melbourne.

Frederick Ronald Williams begane his artistic training at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, where he learned the traditional studio methods of drawing. He then traveled to England for several years of further study in London, where he visited various collections of modern and contemporary art in the city's museums and galleries. Williams returned to Australia in 1957 and adopted the landscape of his native country as the central subject of his art. He was influenced by the landscape painting of the French modernists Cézanne and Matisse, but eventually developed his own style by simplifying his subject into abstract forms. His large-scale works of the 1970s and 80s were influenced by the 'color-field' style of painting that emerged from Abstract Expressionism. Like the major practitioners of this style, who included Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, Williams tended to work in large formats, with broad masses of color and subtle differentiations of texture. In 1977. Williams was the first Australian artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Working within the dominant Australian landscape genre, he developed the heritage of late 19th-century Australian Impressionism and modernised it. (metmuseum.org)

Measurements: Height: by sight 21 1/4 in. x Width: 29 5/8 in.

Condition:

Good condition, not viewed out of frame, some surface dirt and light foxing, pin holes to corners.

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