Arthur STREETON

Tambourine
1891

Medium

oil on tambourine

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004

Gallery location: Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

About this work

Arthur Streeton’s tambourine depicts Tom Roberts’s studio at Grovesnor Chambers, at the top of Collins Street, Melbourne. Built expressly for artists and in the late nineteenth century, the Chambers were occupied by the likes of Charles Conder, Jane Price, Clara Southern and Jane Sutherland. Often, Roberts would hold a series of conversaziones – social meetings for conversation about art – where he and Streeton would play the American cabinet organ, while McCubbin sang. During the first half of 1891, while Roberts was away painting in rural New South Wales, he gave Streeton and fellow artist John Mather the run of the studio. At the time, tambourines were fashionable novelties to paint on, and were used by professionals and amateurs alike.

Artwork Details

Medium

oil on tambourine

Measurements

25.7 cm diameter

Place/s of Execution

Melbourne, Victoria

Inscription

incised in paint A Streeton / 1891.

Accession Number

2004.221

Department

Australian Painting

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

Gallery location

Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

Subjects (general)

Interiors Musical

Subjects (specific)

drapery (representations) easels Melbourne (inhabited place) paintings (visual works) paper lantern vases

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Arthur STREETON

Tambourine
1891