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  Arthur Streeton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Streeton was born in Mount Duneed, southwest of Geelong, and his family moved to Richmond in 1874.
Streeton painted in Venice in September 1908 and the resulting works were exhibited in Australia in July 1909 as "Arthur Streeton's Venice".
Streeton was deeply affected by the sights he encountered in the hospital and was discharged in February 1917 as medically unfit.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Streeton   (944 words)

  
 Arthur Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (July 20, 1920 - April 24, 1999) was a prominent Australian artist, both as a painter and sculptor.
He represented Australia with Arthur Streeton at the Venice Biennale in 1958.
Arthur Boyd also was commissioned to do a painting for the New Parliament House in Canberra, which was made into an enormous tapestry for the Great Hall.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Boyd   (444 words)

  
 Education Kit for Near Heidelberg by Arthur Streeton
Streeton handles this small canvas with the ease and relaxation born of familiarity with the landscape forms.
The foreground is equally broadly treated, with Streeton using the device of a path leading the eye into the picture space, up to the clump of gums silhouetted against the sky and then carried deeper into the picture by the line of straggling picnickers heading down the slope.
Streeton, alone within the Heidelberg group, concentrated on landscapes and with a sureness that captured a feeling for the light and colour of the land - a land that by the 1890s had the indelible marking of man's hand upon it.
www.ngv.vic.gov.au /collection/australian/painting/s/streeton_a/education_kit.html   (1023 words)

  
 Outdoor Painting :: History ::
Arthur Streeton was at the forefront of a small group of Australian painters responsible for creating an Impressionist style in the 1880’s.
Streeton was part of a younger generation of artists who admired the French Barbizon Painters.
Arthur Streeton was acknowledged as Australia’s greatest landscape painter.
www.outdoorpainting.com /History/Streeton.php   (336 words)

  
 Queensland Art Gallery - Streeton: works from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The landscapes of Sir Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) reflected a new vision for Australian art at the turn of the twentieth century.
Streeton left Australia in 1897, with the belief that artists from the colonies needed to experience Europe and compete with European artists before they would be recognised at home.
That Streeton was born in Australia was an important distinction from earlier colonial Australian artists who had migrated from Europe.
www.qag.qld.gov.au /exhibitions/travelling/streeton   (306 words)

  
 Artist's Footsteps
Arthur Ernest Streeton, or 'Smike' as he was known to his friends, was born at Duneed, near Geelong, Victoria on the 8th April 1867.
Streeton was heavily influenced by the teachings and works of his close friend, Louis Buvelot, and was fascinated by the French Impressionist movement.
Streeton was greatly impressed by the works of the 'Glasgow School' artists, and exhibited with the Royal Academy in 1900.
www.artistsfootsteps.com /html/Streeton_biography.htm   (1664 words)

  
 Streeton's long golden summer - Arts - www.theage.com.au
Surprising because Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) is one of the stars of the Heidelberg School whose work was a feature of the blockbuster Heidelberg and Beyond: Golden Summers at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1985, and was the subject of a retrospective that toured the major state galleries in 1995.
Equally radical was Streeton's Oblivion, which Smith describes as "very rare, very unusual" because of his use of a figure in the foreground and the Pacific Ocean in the background acting as an allegorical reference to Shakespeare's The Tempest and a land of slumber.
Arthur Streeton and the Australian Coast is at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, December 11 to March 6.
www.theage.com.au /news/Arts/Streetons-summer/2004/12/07/1102182284512.html   (459 words)

  
 Collections: Artist Profiles - Arthur Streeton - [Australian War Memorial]
Arthur Streeton was born at Mt Duneed, Victoria in 1867.
During the 1880s Streeton was one of a group of young Australian artists who took up the French tradition of painting outdoors.
Streeton worked mostly around the Somme battlefields until mid-August 1918, when he returned to London.
www.awm.gov.au /aboutus/artist_profiles/streeton.htm   (429 words)

  
 Artist's Footsteps
Arthur Streeton, the fourth of seven children, was born at Duneed, near Geelong, Victoria on the 8 April 1867.
Arthur Streeton, who was known to his friends as ‘Smike’, died on 1 September 1943 and is buried in Ferntree Gully Cemetery.
Roberts and Streeton spent the last years of their lives living only kilometres apart in the picturesque Dandenong Ranges, to the east of Melbourne.
www.artistsfootsteps.com /html/Artists_streeton.htm   (397 words)

  
 Print Article: Streeton paints a picture of past in battle over harbourside development
Oliver Streeton jumps through a noose of drooping vines, slides down a muddy bank and jumps on to a flat rock that is being washed by the wake from a passing ferry.
For it was here, a century ago, on the slopes of Little Sirius Cove, Mosman, that his grandfather Arthur Streeton and friends such as Tom Roberts, Julian Ashton and Henry Fullwood set up their artists' camps and painted some of the most famous pictures of Sydney Harbour.
Mr Streeton's contribution has been welcomed by Mosman Council and the Heritage Council, which must decide whether the homes - protected by an interim heritage order - should be listed as being of state significance.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/05/07/1052280321004.html   (471 words)

  
 MPRG past exhibitions
Arthur Streeton remains one of Australia's most celebrated artists and this outstanding exhibition brought together approximately forty major paintings examining for the first time the remarkable still life and garden paintings produced by Streeton during his career.
Streeton was an authority on roses and a keen conservationist.
Arthur Boyd: The emerging artist focused on Arthur Boyd’s formative experiences and provided the first comprehensive documentation of Boyd’s residences on the Peninsula, his associations and friendships, and the motifs, observations and experiences which were to become important points of reference throughout his long and distinguished career.
mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au /exhibitions/past.html   (2554 words)

  
 Harbour views - State of the Arts
Streeton - along with Frederick McCubbin, Charles Conder and Tom Roberts - was a leader of the Heidelberg School of Australian painting.
Yet although Streeton may be best known for his contribution to the Heidelberg School, his practice was not restricted to images of the bush.
Arthur Streeton and the Australian Coast offers a complete re-examination of Streeton’s output, bringing together historic paintings as well as other, more intimate works that drew upon events from the artist’s life.
www.stateart.com.au /sota/hit-list?fid=3102   (722 words)

  
 ArtLex on the Heidelberg School
Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867-1943), Golden Summer, Eaglemont, 1889, oil on canvas (81.3 x 152.6 cm), in its frame, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Arthur Streeton, Near Heidelberg, 1890, oil on canvas, 53.4 x 43.1 cm, National Gallery of Victoria.
Arthur Streeton, The Selector's Hut, Whelan on the Log, 1890, oil on canvas, 76.7 x 51.2 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/h/heidelbergschool.html   (414 words)

  
 The Book of Streetons
The only Streeton not part of my immediate family that I had ever heard of was Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), an Australian landscape painter.
Matt Streeton of Wisconsin has also agreed to help me with info on that branch of the clan, founded by William Streeton (b 1817) who emigrated to the US in the 1840's and farmed in Lacrosse Cty, Wisconsin.
Any member of the Streeton clan who chances upon these pages is cordially invited to contact me me and hopefully to contribute to the data and/or correct errors.
hjem.get2net.dk /trevor/HtmlTrees/bookofstreetons.html   (760 words)

  
 The Book of Streetons - the Arthurian Mystery
Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), was the son of Charles Henry Streeton (1828-1930) & Mary Blundell.
Mary was born Mary Streeton (or Streaton) at Wateringbury, Kent in 1812, christened there 8 Feb of that year, the daughter of Benjamin Streeton (b abt 1775) by his wife Frances.
Benjamin seems to have been a popular name for the Kent Streetons & Mary's father was probably the son of Benjamin Streeton (b abt 1753) & Elizabeth Beal.
hjem.get2net.dk /trevor/HtmlTrees/arthur.html   (241 words)

  
 Sir Arthur Streeton 1867-1943 - Ronald Coles Investment Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Streeton purchased his property "Longacres" at Olinda, in the Dandenong Ranges in 1921.
This is a bold composition, with its parallel bands of sky, blue dividing range and rolling hills.
Streeton was determined that the Australian landscape should remain, unspoilt for future generations.
www.ronaldcolesgalleries.com.au /streeton_blue-gold.html   (139 words)

  
 Four Corners - 10/05/99: Rogue's Gallery. Australian Broadcasting Corp
The go-between was Arthur Streeton's grandson Oliver, who'd been approached first by the Queensland dealer Leigh Murphy.
They'd been offered privately -- the so-called Streeton, publicly in an auction and therefore the paintings were very well known and also the people handling the paintings were also known within the art trade.
The Streeton forgery "Banksias" was catalogued for sale at Isles Love under another name in 1995, along with 16 other suspected fakes.
www.abc.net.au /4corners/stories/s25145.htm   (5824 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Influence Streeton was mainly influenced by his fellow artists Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and especially Charles Conder, since they shared his inclination for plein air painting.
This simple construction, with the paint rapidly and thickly applied, is then enlivened by crisp touches of detail in the immediate foreground, the delicately curving branches of the gums against the sky and by hints of pure color on the white summer dresses of the departing figures.
Streeton, alone within the Heidelberg group, concentrated on landscapes and with a sureness that captured a feeling for the light and color of the land — a land that by the 1890s had the indelible marking of man's hand upon it.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4apr/art0408.html   (7980 words)

  
 Stateline Canberra
Mrs Marlena Jeffery: This is an Arthur Streeton, it's called 'Sheep Country'.
Mrs Jeffery: Here we have something quite different, this is an Arthur Boyd, Arthur Boyd is a 20th century, Australian, very famous artist as you know.
What excites me about Arthur Boyd's painting as well as being so brilliant, wonderful artistic works - is that they challenge you to look for a deeper meaning.
www.abc.net.au /stateline/act/content/2004/s1166661.htm   (1429 words)

  
 my art essays: April 2005
The four artists all participated in an exhibition in the city called the 9 x 5 exhibition, referring to the size in inches of the cigar box lids which most of the paintings were done on.
"It is Streeton who definitively captures the quality of Australian light." (Galbally 1979: 15) In his beautiful painting of the Yarra River valley, Still glides the stream and shall forever glide 1890, Streeton shows a winding river in the middle of the picture and a landscape of bright yellowish colour, very typically Australian.
Another beautiful painting Streeton did was Golden Summer, Eaglemont showing clearly the differences in the light outdoors between sunshine and shade, with the focus of the picture being the glorious yellow-gold colour of the sunlit field.
cfitzart.blogspot.com /2005_04_01_cfitzart_archive.html   (9585 words)

  
 Sir Arthur Streeton (1867 - 1943) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Streeton later established an artists’ colony called Eaglemont where continued to paint his realistic landscapes.
Arthur Devis - Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart 1757 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
Barry Pearce, Head Curator of Australian Art and Co-Curator of the Charles Conder Retrospective Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder are considered to have laid the foundation of the great Heidelberg school of...
wwar.com /masters/s/streeton-sir_arthur.html   (416 words)

  
 Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton Profile - Ronald Coles Investment Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Streeton's mighty vistas, with their vigorous square brushstrokes, dominated the Australian scene for more than a decade, but his career was fraught with many frustrations.
One was his inability to handle the human figure in paint, an attribute which he greatly envied in his lifelong friend and colleague, Frederick McCubbin.
For 25 year Streeton's career fluctuated between vain attempts to conquer the London art world, and triumphant visits home.
www.ronaldcolesgalleries.com.au /streeton_profile.html   (452 words)

  
 Arthur Streeton - Australian Impressionist Artist
+ Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton is a famous Australian painter most famous for his impressionist Australian landscapes, his relationship with the Heidelberg School, and the 9 x 5 Impression Exhibition of works painted on cigar box lids.
Australian War Memorial profile of Arthur Streeton with information on his work he did as an Australian War artist in 1918.
Arthur Streeton paintings from an exhibition held at the Queensland Art Gallery of the impressionist painter.
www.linkism.com /visual_artists/famous-artists/s-art/arthur-streeton   (311 words)

  
 Melbourne Water : Rivers and Creeks : Yarra River : The Painted River
Streeton's majestic pastoral of the meandering Yarra, Still Glides the Stream was the first of the Heidelberg School paintings to be purchased for a public gallery and to this day it commands pride of place in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Streeton encapsulated the sentiment in a letter: "The dear hills of Heidelberg - the long brown summer hills and valley and music.
It is a fascinating coincidence that half a century later another young group of painters were to gather in the same part of the Yarra to paint, converse, argue and generally inspire each other to more daring expressions at the new edges of abstract art.
www.melbournewater.com.au /content/rivers_and_creeks/yarra_river/the_painted_river.asp   (534 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Australia
This group of painters was known as the Heidelberg School; it included Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin, and Sir Arthur Streeton.
Australian painters of the 20th century included Sir William Dobell, known for his portraits; George Russell Drysdale, noted for depictions of the isolated inhabitants of the interior of the country; and Frederick Ronald Williams, whose landscapes and seascapes were notable for their quality of light.
Classical ballet was brought to Australia by famed native-born dancer and choreographer Sir Robert Helpmann, who was one of the founders of the Australian Ballet.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568792_6/Australia.html   (1643 words)

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