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(Two giraffes)

(Two giraffes)
 (c. 1953)

Medium
conté crayon
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© Estate of Fred Williams
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
conté crayon
Measurements
36.0 × 24.6 cm (image) 39.8 × 25.8 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink u.r.: FW
Accession Number
2022.691
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© Estate of Fred Williams
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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Exhibition
Fred Williams
Learning Resource
The Australian landscape: Inspired by Fred Williams’s You Yangs series
Essay
Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
Essay
Selected affinities: Fred Williams’s drawings after Rembrandt
Essay
Major early landscape by Fred Williams
Essay
Fred Williams’s Pilbara series
Exhibition
Fred Williams
Exhibition
Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection
Exhibition
Heroic Landscape: Williams, Streeton
Exhibition
Landfall
Exhibition
Treasures of a Decade
Essay
Framing the modern: Twentieth-century picture frames in Melbourne and beyond
Essay
Donald Laycock: Star cycle
Exhibition
Luminous
Essay
The violent vision of the 1940s
Essay
An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
Essay
Ocean beach, Sorrento
Essay
Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: Painting in a changing landscape
Essay
‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
Essay
Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square

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