Title
Fireman's funeral, George Street
(1894)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (1894)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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45.3 x 38.2 cm stretcher; 66.1 x 60.4 x 6.6 cm frame
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0 - Whole, 41 x 35.5 cm, sight dimension
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 43.1980
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Arthur Streeton
Works in the collection
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About
'Fireman's funeral, George Street' is a rainy city streetscene by Streeton that depicts the enormous public response to a fireman's heroic death, as the coffin passes the Sydney Town Hall and Queen Victoria Building construction site.
International influences on Streeton's choice of subject matter and his evocative approach, include French and British Impressionism as well as the decorative, asymmetrical design and flattened picture plane of Japanese woodcuts. Streeton continued to experiment with these elements throughout the mid-1890s in his numerous paintings of Sydney Harbour and decorative panels on the subject of Sirius Cove completed whilst he was staying at nearby Curlew Camp.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 10 exhibitions
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Images of Sydney and Environs 1850-1950 (1985), New South Wales House, London, Mar 1985–May 1985
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Sydney studios, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 14 Aug 2004–26 Sep 2004
Fireworks, Artspace Mackay, Queensland, 18 Mar 2005–01 May 2005
Fireworks, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Rockhampton, 06 May 2005–19 Jun 2005
Fireworks, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 24 Jun 2005–21 Aug 2005
Fireworks, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gladstone, 02 Sep 2005–29 Oct 2005
Fireworks, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 05 Dec 2005–05 Feb 2006
Fireworks, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 10 Feb 2006–09 Apr 2006
Fireworks, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 11 May 2006–25 Jun 2006
Fireworks, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 07 Jul 2006–03 Sep 2006
Fireworks, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 03 Oct 2006–19 Nov 2006
Fireworks, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 24 Nov 2006–04 Feb 2007
Streeton's Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 04 Aug 2007–23 Sep 2007
Australia's Impressionists, National Gallery, London, London, 07 Dec 2016–26 Mar 2017
Streeton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 2020–14 Feb 2021
She-oak and sunlight: Australian Impressionism, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 02 Apr 2021–22 Aug 2021
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Okko Boer, Masters of the Heidelberg School, Leichhardt, 1998, 34 (colour illus.). plate no. 31
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, I blame Duchamp: my life's adventures in art, 'John Bull and the Little Boy at Manly', pg. 321-333, Sydney, 2009, 328.
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Alan Krell, Fireworks: tracing the incendiary in Australian art, 'In its element', pg. 42-71, Mackay, 2005, 46, 47 (colour illus.), 50, 75.
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John McDonald, Art of Australia. Vol 1: Exploration to Federation, ‘Individual and national feeling’, pg. 545-610, Sydney, 2008, 576, 578 (colour illus.).
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Humphrey McQueen, Art Monthly Australia, 'Positions vacant', pg. 21-23, Canberra, Sep 2000, 21. review of 'Australian icons' exhibition
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Barry Pearce, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Australian Art', pg. 5-26, Sydney, 1981, 23 (colour illus.). cat.no. 37
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Christopher Riopelle (Editor), Australia's impressionists, 'Catalogue', pg. 64-109, London, 2016, 75 (colour illus.), 113, 125, 127. cat.no. 12
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