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Shown in 11 exhibitions. Exhibition of Landscape Paintings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 25 Jun 1941–07 Jul 1941. Russell Drysdale (1942), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 11 Mar 1942–30 Mar 1942 Contemporary Australian painting from the National collection, Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1946–1950. A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 ...
George Russell Drysdale, who died yesterday morning in the Westmead Hospital, was born on February 7, 1912, at Bognor Regis, Sussex, while his parents were on one of their frequent visits to England.
This work is one of Russell Drysdale’s most celebrated paintings and amongst the most frequently reproduced images of twentieth century Australian art. Based on the Royal Hotel at Seymour on the ...
This exhibition focuses upon Russell Drysdale’s images of the Australian interior, surveying the artist’s approach to landscape across painting, drawing and photography—the first exhibition to explore his outback work across these three media. Taking a fresh look at this major artist, and based on original research, the exhibition shows how Drysdale highlighted what he saw […]
Born in England in 1912, Drysdale arrived in Australia in 1923 where he was brought up on the land until he was old enough to receive a solid education in the arts both in Australia and abroad. Between the years 1935- 1939 he studied at the Grosvenor School in London, the Grand Chaumiere, Paris and the George Bell School in Melbourne.
2 de dic. de 2013 · During the mid-1940s Russell Drysdale began to blend symbolism with Australian outback imagery. The bleak apocalyptic landscape painting, Crucifixion (1946), encapsulates the horrors of World War II, including the Holocaust and the bombing of Hiroshima. As curator Christopher Heathcote points out: “there is a macabre twist to the circle of luridly glowing sand that sits on this blasted plain ...
