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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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Clara Southern
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The Road to Warrandyte
Painting ID:: 79302
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Clara Southern
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Australian artist, 1860-1940
Australian painter. One of the first generation of progressive, professionally educated Australian women artists, she began her training as a pupil of Mme Mouchette, painter, schoolmistress and founder of the Alliance Fran?aise in Melbourne; and later took lessons from Walter Withers. As a student at the National Gallery of Victoria (1883-7) she was nicknamed 'Panther' for her lithe beauty. From mid-1888 she shared a teaching studio with Jane Sutherland in the new purpose-built Grosvenor Chambers, where Tom Roberts was a neighbour. She had 'caught the "Impressionist" fever', reported Table Talk (2 Aug 1889), and showed 'a great variety of charming little sketches, which however are not intended for exhibition'. She showed with the Victorian Artists' Society (1889-1917): mainly subjects around Kyneton and Melbourne's outer suburbs, painted in the fresh, quasi-Impressionist style characteristic of the Heidelberg school. |
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The Road to Warrandyte, painting, oil on canvas on board, 49.5 x 96.0 cm, by Clara Southern
Date circa 1905-1910
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Related Paintings::.
| The Reading Girl | The Letter | Models rest | |
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