Title
Burnt landscape, Upwey no 1
(1968)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Upwey landscape
- Date
- (1968)
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- gouache on ivory Arches paper
- Dimensions
- 56.8 x 76.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed lower c., black gouache "Fred Williams.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Professor Douglas Joseph 1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 281.1990
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Artist information
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Fred Williams
Works in the collection
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About
At the end of 1968, bushfires swept through the Dandenongs, one stopping less than one hundred meters from the Williams family home at Upwey. It was a terrifying experience that Williams recalled later as like 'living in a war'. However, the fires bore fruit artistically, as he devoted the rest of the year to works depicting the effects of the fire and its aftermath. In 'Burnt landscape, Upwey no. 1' and 'Burnt landscape, Upwey no. 2' the unaccustomed scale of the transformed landscape is revealed, its undergrowth stripped and its trees burnt away or laid bare by the flames.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Nov 1995–14 Jan 1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1996–1996
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 1996–1996
Australian Collection Focus: Fred Williams gouaches, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Mar 2005–01 May 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Helen Campbell, Wynne centenary 1897-1997: a selection of past winners from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997. not paginated
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Jim Hoy, Larry Patton and Marty White (Editors), Symphony in the Flint Hills: Tenth Anniversary, Field Journal 2015, Volume VII, Cottonwood Falls, 2015, 45 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, Sydney, 1995, 85 (colour illus.), 122. cat.no. 76
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