(Farm landscape)
1905
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
92.0 × 59.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© Courtesy of the artist's estate
Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
During the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century, Sid Long developed a Symbolist interpretation of the Australian landscape that was largely derived from the English Aesthetic movement and European Art Nouveau. Farm landscape, with its subtle palette and gentle light, shows eucalyptus trees poetically elongated, stylised and silhouetted to form a highly decorative frieze across the picture plane. It reflects Long’s personal interest in developing a visual vocabulary based on the imagination as well as reality.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
New South Wales
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: SID LONG / 1905 (0 underlined)
Accession Number
2004.186
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Agriculture Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
buildings (structures) fences (site elements) fields (land) flowers (plant components) grass (plant material) trees