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Fred Williams
Biography
Fred Williams was a painter and printmaker whose distinctive vision altered the way many Australians envisage the landscape. He approached his subject matter as a stimulus for formal invention and said he strove to depict the underlying bones rather than the surface skin of the Australian continent. Williams had an extensive knowledge of Western art and strove to link his Australian work to these broader traditions.
Following study at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne and private classes at the George Bell Art School in the 1940s, Williams travelled to London in 1951. Inspired by street life and music halls he encountered there, Williams produced a number of etchings of figure subjects, which reflect the influence of Walter Sickert and Honoré Daumier. Through frequent museum visits, he became familiar with European modern and contemporary art, absorbing in particular the work of Cezanne, Matisse, and the Cubists, which fueled his constant search for formal innovation.
Returning to Australia in 1957, Williams was confronted by the light, sca
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Fred Williams (artist)
Australian painter and printmaker
Fred Williams | |
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Fred Williams in front of Gorge landscape (oil on canvas, 1981) from the Pilbara series (photo by Rennie Ellis, 1981) | |
| Born | Frederick Ronald Williams[1] (1927-01-23)23 January 1927 Richmond, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 22 April 1982(1982-04-22) (aged 55) Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | National Gallery School, Melbourne Chelsea School of Art, London Central School of Arts and Crafts, London |
| Known for | Painting, Printmaking |
| Notable work | Pilbara series (1979–81) |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)[2] |
Frederick Ronald WilliamsOBE (23 January 1927 – 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century's major landscapists. He had more than seventy solo exhibitions during his career in Australian galleries, as well as the exhibition Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the M
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Fred Williams • The Upwey Years
One of Australian most significant artists who redefined landscape painting during his Upwey years.
Melbourne-born Fred Williams is considered one of Australia’s finest landscape painters of the twentieth century. His works mark a great departure from traditional depictions of the Australian landscape.
After winning the 1964 Helena Rubinstein Travelling Scholarship, Fred Williams visited Europe. He returned inspired by the densely painted landscapes of French nineteenth-century painter Gustave Courbet, an influence that can be seen in the generous application of paint in the foliage of this painting. Williams and his family had moved into a small house on 2 acres of land at Upwey, in the Dandenong Ranges outside of Melbourne in 1963. With his studio situated at the base of a valley, the setting became the inspiration for the high horizon line seen in this and many other paintings.
In 1977 Williams was invited to exhibit his gouaches at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This was an opportunity for him to begin his career anew wi
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