Eddie Pensier writes:

More AGNSW pictures, this one focusing on the museum’s works by Australian artists. (I’m using a loose definition: artists who were either born or died or spent a substantial part of their lives in Australia.) I was especially taken by the nightmarish Surrealist paintings of Herbert McClintock and James Gleeson, enough that I’ll be investigating their work a lot further. Talk about out-Dalí-ing Dalí. I’m also a fan of Weaver Hawkins’ strikingly modernist jockeys, and Arthur Collingridge’s oddly sweet A Token of Friendship.

Eric Thake, Archaeopteryx, 1941

Sydney Long, Pan, 1898

Albert Tucker, Faun Attacked By Parrot 3, 1968

James Gleeson, The Sower, 1944

Crace Cossington Smith, The Curve of the Bridge 1928-9

John Brack, The New House, 1953

Charles Meere, Australian Beach Pattern, 1940

Grace Cossington Smith, Interior with Wardrobe Mirror, 1955

Arthur Collingridge, A Token Of Friendship, 1890

George W. Lambert, Important People, 1914-21

Roland Wakelin, Down the Hills to Berry’s Bay, 1916

Sidney Nolan, First Class Marksman, 1946

Weaver Hawkins (aka Raokin), Going Round, 1954

Herbert McClintock, Dawnbreakers, 1939

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