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The Letter,
Painting ID:: 77086
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Frederick Mccubbin
The Letter,
The Letter, painting, oil on canvas, 69.1 x 51.0 cm, by Frederick McCubbin
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Colour Note at South Yarra
Painting ID:: 77113
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Frederick Mccubbin
Colour Note at South Yarra
1910, oil on linen, 34.0 x 49.5 cm
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Forest Macedon
Painting ID:: 77114
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Frederick Mccubbin
Forest Macedon
1910, oil on canvas, 35.0 x 25.0 cm
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Study of Poultry
Painting ID:: 77120
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Frederick Mccubbin
Study of Poultry
1908, oil on canvas, 24.0 x 35.0 cm
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Autumn Afternoon
Painting ID:: 77122
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Frederick Mccubbin
Autumn Afternoon
oil on canvas, 34 x 50 cm) by Frederick McCubbin (1855?C1917).
The painting is in a private collection.
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Frederick Mccubbin
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Australian Painter, 1855-1917
By the early 1880s, his work began to attract considerable attention and won a number of prizes from the National Gallery, including a 30-pound first prize in 1883 in their annual student exhibition, and by the mid-1880s began to concentrate more on the works of the Australian bush which made him most famous. In 1883, he received first prize in the first annual Gallery students' exhibition, for best studies in colour and drawing. In 1888, he became instructor and master of the School of Design at the National Gallery. In this position he taught a number of students who themselves became prominent Australian artists, including Charles Conder and Arthur Streeton. He continued to paint through the first two decades of the 20th century, though by the beginning of World War I his health began to fail. He travelled to England in 1907 and visited Tasmania, but aside from these relatively short excursions lived most of his life in Melbourne. McCubbin married Annie Moriarty in March, 1889. They had seven children, of whom their son Louis also became an artist. In 1901 McCubbin and his family moved to Mount Macedon, where he was inspired by the surrounding bush and has experimented with the light and its effects on colour in nature. In 1912, |
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