Sir arthur streeton images of christmas
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Lilium auratum
This magnificent flower painting was rapidly executed with broad strokes of thin, translucent paint. Two plumes of white flowers with orange speckles and stamens, in a brass Middle Eastern jardiniere, stand out from the deep green background. Remnants of blue sky can just be made out near the lilies on the left, hints of an earlier landscape concealed beneath the showy lilies.
An X-ray has revealed a view of the Gloucester Buckets mountain range in New South Wales. It matches a 1894 line engraving of the painting exhibited in Sydney and reviewed as 'amongst the best pictures of the year', which by 1935 Streeton had listed as 'disappeared' from his studio. Streeton painted the lilies directly on top of this canvas which, if rotated to the right, reveals the mountain range more clearly. It is difficult to know why Streeton painted over one of his most notable 1890s landscapes, but many of his still-lifes have earlier paintinqs underneath.
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Australian Prints + Printmaking
Primary Artist
Arthur Streeton (1867–1943)
Title
Greeting card: Christmas 1911
Date made
1911
Place made
Europe, England, Greater London, London View on mapClose map
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Category
Print type
planographic
Technique
lithograph, printed in blue ink, from one stone; hand-coloured
Matrix size
20.8 x 11.2 cm (printed image)
Support
paper
Support size
22.2 x 13.9 cm (sheet)
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
No inscriptions
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
79046
Accession number
84.1395
Accession method
Gift
Meeting
Meeting 3, 1984/85 (1984-09-11)
Provenance
Gift to the Australian National galleri, from Rudy Komonto Gallery, Sydney, September 1984
Credit line
Gift of the Rudy Komon Gallery 1984.
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Streeton, Arthur. | (1867–1943) Australian
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The Artists
Arthur Streeton
Arthur Streeton
Private Collection
Arthur Streeton, the fourth of seven children, was born at Duneed, near Geelong, Victoria on the 8 April 1867. From Christmas 1888 to mid 1890, he lived on the Mount Eagle estate. In August 1889, he exhibited 40 works in the 9 x 5 Impression Exhibition, and during the 1890s visited Adelaide and areas of New South Wales. In 1897, he travelled to London, and returned to Australia in October 1906. He again travelled to London in 1907, and married Esther Leonora (Nora) Clench on 11 January 1908. He returned to Australia, and in 1921 purchased a property in Olinda, which he called Longacres. In 1924-25, he organized the building of his house at Longacres. In 1937, he was knighted for his services to art. Arthur Streeton, who was known to his friends as Smike, died on 1 September 1943 and is buried in Ferntree Gully Cemetery.
Arthur Streeton Biography
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