Picturing a Nation

Picturing a NationCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781742236681 Year: 2021 Publisher: NewSouth Publishing Description: The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A. H. Fullwood (18631930) was also the most widely viewed BritishAustralian artist of the Heidelberg era. Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781742236681
Year: 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing


Description:


The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863–1930) was also the most widely viewed British–Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.

Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler–colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today?

In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.

'Gary Werskey's compelling and vivid biography of A.H. Fullwood — a decade-long labour of love, written with a sharp, empathetic eye – rescues one of Australia's most accomplished artists from oblivion. It also stands as a highly original and deeply researched history of Australian culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' — Mark McKenna

'Through extensive, patient research, a discerning eye and lyrical prose, Gary Werskey recovers the life of brilliant artist A.H. Fullwood and guides us on a fresh journey into the fabled world of Australian art and artists in the crucible decades of the 1880s and 1890s.