Central Australian sunset
(1933)
Medium
oil on canvas on board
Measurements
23.3 × 23.3 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Andrée Harkness through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
In 1933, at the age of sixty, Violet Teague travelled to the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission with her sister Una Teague and their friend, artist Jessie Traill. They were accompanied by fellow artist Albert Namatjira on some of their excursions. Namatjira and Teague were close friends, and Namatjira named his daughter Violet after the artist. When the Teague sisters returned to Melbourne, they organised a fundraising exhibition to raise money for a water pipeline to the mission. The exhibition raised more than £2000 (almost $250,000 today), with works donated by Traill, Frederick McCubbin, E. Phillips Fox and Hans Heysen, among others. In 1935 the Hermannsburg community celebrated as a 7-kilometre pipeline was laid from Kaporilja Springs to the mission.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Hermannsburg, Northern Territory
Accession Number
2020.587
Department
Australian Painting