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Fred Williams, Upwey, Victoria

David Moore1963 (printed 2000)

National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery
Canberra, Australia

Fred Williams OBE (1927-1982), painter and etcher, was one of the most important Australian artists of the twentieth century. His unique landscape vision emerged in the late 1950s, after his return from a period of study and work in London. The 1960s saw an increasing minimalism in his paintings, which reached its most extreme point at the end of the decade. In the monumental works of 1969, he attempted to evoke the vast scale of the Australian land through canvases of a single colour dotted with tiny flecks of paint. Although Williams later turned to representation of denser, more colourful country, his severe and sparse pictures of the 1960s contributed profoundly to subsequent interpretation of the Australian landscape.

Details

  • Title: Fred Williams, Upwey, Victoria
  • Creator: David Moore
  • Date Created: 1963 (printed 2000)
  • Provenance: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
  • Rights: https://www.portrait.gov.au/form-image-request.php
  • External Link: https://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2001.137

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