It is indeed pretty but also profound. I shout and laugh at my immense wealth, all free and without responsibility. Golden Summer, Eaglemont is an 1889 landscape painting by Australian artist Arthur Streeton. Nothing happier than this. While to some viewers Golden Summer, Eaglemont is a superior chocolate-box image, sentimental and nostalgic, the picture rewards detailed contemplation. It is, therefore, historically the most important landscape in Australia.A private collector acquired it for 1,000.Clark, Jane (1985). Painted in early 1889 during a summer of drought, it was consciously an epic work, large-scale and in keeping with a contemporary spirit exemplified in a lecture presented to Melbourne artists in June 1889 by Professor A.P. He consciously created an epic work, large in … Golden Summer, Eaglemont Arthur STREETON, 1889 Huile sur toile, National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) Je vous présente aujourd’hui un de mes tableaux préférés (pas très original sachant que ce doit être un des tableaux australiens les plus célèbres et les plus représentés). In …

It is the first great Australian landscape, untrammeled by picture making formula, to come from the hand of the native born. In Ryan, Judith. Golden summer, Eaglemont is an Australian idyll painted by Arthur Streeton during a summer of drought. Australian artists should ‘paint it as it appeared to them in all the beauty of atmospheric effect’.1  They should present the Australian landscape so that those unfamiliar with it would appreciate its loveliness.Streeton’s famous idyll has become a quintessential Australian painting of the years leading up to Federation in 1901.

work depicts a pastoral scene on the Eaglemont hillside, late one Summer afternoon. Streeton described the location in a letter to Roberts, calling it "our hill of gold":I sit here in the upper circle surrounded by copper and gold, and smile with joy under my fly net as all the light, glory and quivering brightness passes slowly and freely before my eyes. No one.The title may have been inspired by young,[Streeton] would go off by himself with his easel and canvas and would lie on the grass for hours, wearing only shirt and trousers, and staring at the sky and at the river in the valley, and at the.The painting is noted for its thick application of paint, and one evening in the Eaglemont homstead, Streeton approached the canvas with a knife in order to scrape away some of the layers.

"Australian Art: Mr Streeton's Return: Memories of Heidelberg","The Winter Exhibition of the Victorian Artists' Society",The Exhibition and Reception of Australian Art in London in the Nineteenth Century,"Arthur Streeton's impressionist masterpiece Golden Summer, Eaglemont back on show at NGA",Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek. The acquisition by the National Gallery of Australia was the fulfilment of a long-held goal by the then Director, Betty Churcher.2David Malouf, The Conversations at Curlow Creek.3Table Talk, April 26 1889, p.5 quoted in Mary Eagle op.cit., p.27.Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010,From: Anne Gray (ed), Australian art in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2002,Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more. Find more prominent pieces of landscape at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. It emphasised the growing nationalism of the period, not yet a country but, in David Malouf’s words, ‘a place that was still being made habitable … some patch of the earth, however small, where [men] could stand up, feel the ground under their feet and say, this is mine, I have made it, I have made it mine’.2,In 1889, a critic described Golden Summer, Eaglemont as ‘a large summer landscape … a long undulating plain, which, lying in the glory of a warm sunny afternoon, appears as a stretch of golden meadow land, while in the distance the purple shadows are fast creeping over the hills, and lurking in the little patches among the hollows of the ground.3  Streeton first occupied the weatherboard farmhouse on the Mount Eagle estate at,In the early 1920s, Streeton altered the painting by making the shadow of the river-plain stronger to the left, and by emphasising the foliage of the.When sold in 1924, 1985 and 1995, Golden Summer, Eaglemont established each time a record price for an Australian painting.

"Heidelberg Summers". Laurie, who called for a poetic approach to native scenery. Roberts convinced him to "leave it alone", for which Streeton was later thankful.The so-called "impressionist school" at Heidelberg has done some good after all.Ahead of its public auction in Australia in 1924.This tranquil landscape, so simply yet so exquisitely fashioned, possesses for Australians a sentiment no other people may equally enjoy. Naturalistic yet poetic, and a conscious effort by the …