Art Essays
Impressions: Painting Light & Life
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Art Essays, Australian Art, Sydney Morning Herald Column,
A survey of portraiture by Australian artists of the late nineteenth century would seem to be long overdue. Despite the institutional obsession with all things contemporary, the works of the so-called Australian Impressionists – Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Fred McCubbin and Charles Conder – remain the most popular drawcards in our public collections. The problem […]