Ballarat cemetery
(1943)
Medium
enamel paint on canvas
Measurements
64.0 × 76.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Sir Sidney and Lady Nolan, 1983
© The Estate of Sidney Nolan / Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
In April 1942 Sidney Nolan was conscripted into the Australian army and served in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, where he spent nearly two years based in the country town of Dimboola. Nolan spent many hours on guard duty, drawing and meditating on the landscape: small country towns dominated by towering wheat silos, railway lifelines to the sea, farmhouses and immense, fertile wheat paddocks. These paintings and drawings’ apparent naivety and spontaneity is underpinned by Nolan’s sophisticated sense of design and colour. These works mark Nolan's first sustained engagement with the Australian landscape and are widely recognised as an important early phase in his career.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
A29-1983
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Ceremonial and Funerary Monuments and Memorials
Subjects (specific)
Ballarat (inhabited place) cemeteries column figures graves headstones (tombstones) Victoria (state)
Movements
Angry Penguins
Frame
Reproduction, 2002, based on film footage from 1944