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Frederick McCubbin
Home again 1884
oil on canvas
85.0 × 123.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of G. J. Coles and Company Pty Ltd, Governor, 1981
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Home again
1884
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
85.0 × 123.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of G. J. Coles and Company Pty Ltd, Governor, 1981
Gallery location
Gallery 6
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Frederick McCubbin painted this work while a student of George Folingsby at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. It shows the influence of Folingsby’s teaching in its domestic genre, dramatic storyline, carefully controlled lighting and a grey-brown palette enlivened with red and purple. McCubbin has given this mid-Victorian narrative a strong Australian flavour with a bearded swagman, bedroll on his shoulder, returning home.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.r.: F / MEL
overinscribed first inscription in brown paint l.r.: F. McCUBBIN / 1884
Accession Number
A2-1981
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Interiors
Subjects (specific)
arrivals dog (species) domesticity home (concept) homes journeys spouses swagman
Movements
Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School
Frame
By J. & T. Thallon, 1882-88, fitted to the painting 2002, surface not original