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(Barge boy)

(Barge boy)
 (1954-1955)

Medium
gouache on paper
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AC and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2025
© Estate of Fred Williams
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
gouache on paper
Measurements
64.4 × 43.4 cm (image and sheet)
Place/s of Execution
West Wittering, West Sussex, England
Inscription
inscribed in pen and ink u.r.: Fred Williams
Accession Number
2025.82
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AC and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2025
© Estate of Fred Williams
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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Fred Williams
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The Australian landscape: Inspired by Fred Williams’s You Yangs series
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Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
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Essay
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Essay
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Exhibition
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Essay
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Essay
An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
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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
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Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square

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