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Fred Williams (artist)

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building houses Williams' easel, brushes, the leather-bound diaries he kept from 1963 until his death, clipping books, a range of works and includes a gallery for hanging and photographing the artist's works. Works that are donated to public galleries and museums are prepared there. In 2009, Lyn Williams completed her ongoing gift to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) of the prints of Fred Williams.
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I-IV series from 1971, Williams painted from the top of a cliff overlooking the beach during a seaside holiday. Each sheet is broken horizontally into four separate strips representing a different time of day and corresponding shift in the colour and tone of the scene as Williams recorded the effects
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Williams' estate is managed by his widow, Lyn Williams. Lyn bought a former factory in inner-Melbourne in 1989 and has managed the artist's estate from there since she sorted through his studio at their former home in Hawthorn. All of the artist's known works have been catalogued on a database. The
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pictures show the point where the sea joins the land depicted as if looking down from above in the form of four strips. Williams recorded the event in his diary from 27–28 March 1974, "I do 'strip' paintings of the beach using sand glued on – but the wind has worn me to a 'frazzle' … My final half
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tradition, the Antipodeans lauded a spontaneous, improvised approach to painting and saw the function of art as vested in its expressive potential. They had little time for - and, in fact, denounced - the 'new' art emerging from Europe, the influences which were increasingly informing Williams'
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While learning etching and printing in London, he produced vivid caricatured sketches of contemporary London life. It was during this period that he established his method of reworking the same motif a number of times in a number of mediums and very often over a number of years.
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In 1969, Williams started using a horizontal strip format in his landscape paintings in order to present different aspects of one scene on the same sheet. In 1970, Williams produced a group of four large strip format gouache-on-paper paintings called the
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Fred brought us a new vision of Australia’s landscape at least as valid and impressive as any of the two or three major illuminations which went before it. He changed the way we see our country: an achievement which will live long after all of us are
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Travelling Art Scholarship, the richest and most prestigious art prize at the time with an award of £1000 plus £300 travel expenses aimed at giving the winner overseas experience. Five paintings were required for his entry and he selected
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bedsit and subsidised his art practice by working part-time at Savage’s picture framers. Williams returned to Melbourne in 1956, when his family was able to send him a cheap ticket aboard a ship bringing visitors to the
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line, or where clumps of trees huddle closer together towards the horizon, suggesting recession. Where no horizon is visible, the landscape runs fully parallel to the picture plane, as in the major
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In May 1976, while Williams and his wife Lyn were visiting Paris and Bologna, many of Williams's paintings and all gouaches stored at the Barrett Malt Factory in Richmond were damaged by a fire.
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After mainly working with figures in early paintings and etchings, he began painting landscapes after returning to Melbourne in 1957, which remained the major theme in his art.
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In November 1981, Williams was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He died less than six months later in Hawthorn on 22 April 1982, aged 55. Fellow artist and friend
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potential of the Australian bush in its inherent plasticity. His interest in finding an aesthetic 'language' with which to express the very un-European Australian
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the following year, who had his own art school in Melbourne. This continued until 1950. Bell was a conservative modern artist but a very influential teacher.
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took Williams on as one of his key artists which enabled Williams to discontinue his part-time work with a Melbourne picture-framer and paint full-time.
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in Australia in April 2006, which at the time was the second highest price for any work sold at an Australian auction. In September 2007, auction house
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As an artist concerned with form over subjectivity, Williams' approach struck a jarring note against the unity of many of his close associates such as
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series of the mid-1960s. Here, calligraphic knots of pigment indicate the presence of single trees against the earth, as if seen from the air (
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of light on the landscape. By 1971 he had developed the technique extensively, moving from a vertical format to a horizontal format.
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Zdanowicz, Irena (2005). "Painting from the Inside Out: Fred Williams' Travels and His Relationship to the European Tradition".
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In the last years of his career, Williams produced more landscape series with strong themes, his last being the
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outside Melbourne, a location that would have a decisive impact on his work. In 1964 they travelled through
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Fred Williams: An Australian Vision. Etchings, Drawings and Gouaches in the British Museum
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In 1976, Williams flew over the Northern Territory at night on his way to an art fair in
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Between 1952 and 1956, Williams studied part-time at the Chelsea School of Art,
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Fred Williams in Queensland: Exhibition review by Grafico Topico's Sue Smith
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Travelling Art Scholarship in 1963. In 1976 he was named an Officer of the
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He had work included in the 'Recent Australian Painting' exhibition at the
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series (1979–81), which remained intact as it was acquired by Con-Zinc
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Fred Williams, The Later Landscapes, 1975 - 1981, LA Louver gallery
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From Music Hall to Landscape. Fred Williams: Drawings and Prints
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Williams' first Australian landscape series was based on the
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In February 1979, Williams visited the Lal Lal Falls on the
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Williams met Lyn Watson in January 1960 while painting at
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space. In this, Williams looked to the approach taken by
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I and II which employ the horizontal strip format. The
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Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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He did this by tilting the landscape up against the
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Imagined country: environment, culture, and society
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Retrieved on 15 January 2011. 1186: 1118: 1116: 1114: 1112: 516:for landscape painting twice; in 1966 with 202: 1623:Zdanowicz, Irena; Coppel, Stephen (2004). 1320:Sold: a picture of pockets and percentages 1318:Coslovich, Gaberiella (12 December 2009). 1307:Williams painting sells for record $ 1.86m 747:. Australian Art Collector. Archived from 560:1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die 1641: 1603: 1584: 1530: 917: 189:Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent 1549: 1164:. fredwilliams.me.com.au. Archived from 1109: 1011: 896: 842: 689: 687: 614:gave the eulogy at his funeral. He said 598:Scholarship. In 1969, Williams moved to 539:broke their sales record with Williams' 1427: 1063: 664: 662: 660: 1755:Deaths from cancer in Victoria (state) 1692: 1269:. Art Gallery of New South Wales. 1976 1243:. Art Gallery of New South Wales. 1966 1126:. Art Gallery of New South Wales. 2000 1042: 1040: 1038: 1036: 1034: 928: 697:. Rex Irwin Art Dealer. 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Rudy Komon Gallery. 1124:"Waterfall polyptych" 695:"Fred WILLIAMS - bio" 616: 414:, and fellow painter 303:Australian Aboriginal 122:Chelsea School of Art 1349:5 March 2011 at the 1014:"Sorrowful crossing" 798:Short, John (1991). 497:Williams received a 408:Stephen Murray-Smith 406:with the historians 193:Museum of Modern Art 1740:Wynne Prize winners 1363:1001 Before You Die 1047:Gray, Anne (2002). 959:Kemp, Fiona; Wise. 931:"Hillside Number 1" 899:"Sherbrooke Forest" 462:Waterfall polyptych 364:The St George River 248:Whitechapel Gallery 1389:Mollison (p. 237.) 1267:AGNSW prize record 1241:AGNSW prize record 1151:Mollison (p. 224.) 545:Evening Sky, Upwey 470:Eugene von Guérard 241:Melbourne Olympics 95:Hawthorn, Victoria 73:Richmond, Victoria 1710:Landscape artists 1683:Infinite Horizons 1634:978-0-7141-2639-5 1615:978-0-9765585-1-4 1596:978-0-7347-6317-4 1561:978-0-19-554911-9 1542:978-1-74196-087-7 1535:. 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Rennie Ellis
Richmond, Victoria
Australia
Hawthorn, Victoria
Australian
National Gallery School
Chelsea School of Art
Central School of Arts and Crafts
Painting
Printmaking
OBE
painter
printmaker
landscapists
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Richmond
National Gallery School
George Bell
London
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Central School of Arts and Crafts
South Kensington
Melbourne Olympics
Whitechapel Gallery
Tate Gallery
John Brack
Arthur Boyd
Charles Blackman

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