Title
Hillock
(1965)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Upwey
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- Date
- (1965)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- gouache on ivory Arches paper
- Dimensions
- 51.7 x 53.8 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., black gouache "Fred Williams.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Ruth Komon Bequest in memory of Rudy Komon 2004
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 161.2004
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Artist information
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Fred Williams
Works in the collection
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About
This gouache is from the 'Hillside and hummock in the landscape' series of 1965-67. It was painted at Upwey the year following Williams' return from Europe where he had been on the Helena Rubinstein Scholarship. The image draws directly on the hilly landscapes of Fern Tree Gully and Lysterfield, not far from his home at Upwey. The arc of the hillside as horizon is the dominant element of the landscape in Hillock, accentuated further by the painted pink and blue sky, which is, unusually, more illustrative.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
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Places
Where the work was made
Upwey
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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 2 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Look, 'Celebrating Fred Williams', pg. 24-25, Sydney, Nov 2004, front cover (colour illus.), 5 (colour illus.).
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Patrick McCaughey, Fred Williams 1927-1982, Kensington, 1980, 182, 203. Plate no. 90, 'Hillock I', is a related work, as is 'Landscape with burning tree' 1968, reproduced on page 203
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