Horseman in the landscape
(1967)
Medium
gouache
Measurements
57.0 × 76.8 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of the H. J. Heinz II Charitable and Family Trust, Governor, and the Utah Foundation, Fellow, 1980
© Estate of Fred Williams
Gallery location
Gallery 12
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Fred Williams liked to use gouache for outdoor sketching and produced an inventive and substantial body of work in the medium. This gouache, and the related 1968 oil painting (also in the NGV Collection), belongs to Williams’s Upwey series. In these works, a new density of colour and formal structure are added to the distinctive calligraphy and compositional devices Williams had already developed. In this powerful painting, the scrubby, irregular nature of the Australian bush is vividly portrayed through the nuanced complexity of Williams’s mark-making.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in black paint (in image) l.r.: Fred Williams.
Accession Number
AC4-1980
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest