Title
Howling man in landscape
(circa 1995)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1995)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen, brush and brown ink on Khadi paper
- Dimensions
- 77.4 x 56.7 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours Benefactors' Fund 2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 310.2011
- Artist information
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David Brian Wilson
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About
David Brian Wilson was one of the most accomplished mature-age graduates of the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney in the early to mid 1970s, when Richard (Dick) Ashton, grandson of Julian, was its Director. A distinguished draughtsman of the human figure, he is admired for his portraits, still life, figure compositions and landscapes and was a respected teacher of life drawing and painting in Sydney and Bathurst.
This is one of Wilson’s most emotionally searing images, something of a premonition perhaps of the anguish he suffered over the disease (stomach cancer) which killed him at 51. It also brings Edvard Munch's best known painting 'The scream' to mind. The landscape in the drawing is that which Wilson saw daily from his studio window in the tiny country town of Rockley (half an hour’s drive from Bathurst in the mid-west of New South Wales) where he lived and worked. The copse of trees is the subject of one of his last paintings 'Yellow tree' 1998 and various smaller studies for it, including small-scale paintings. The figure is also related to a sculpture he was working on before he died.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
David Brian Wilson 1946-1998 retrospective, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 19 Oct 2001–02 Dec 2001
David Brian Wilson 1946-1998 retrospective, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 28 Feb 2002–07 Apr 2002
David Brian Wilson 1946-1998 retrospective, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 05 May 2002–12 Jul 2002
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Hendrik Kolenberg, David Brian Wilson 1946-1998 Retrospective, Bathurst, 2001, 41, 50 (colour illus.). cat.no. 66
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