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The Squatter's Daughter (Lambert)

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simplified the triangular mass of the hill and sharpened its outline and counterbalanced this with the strong verticals of the trees and the horizontal streak of green grass in the lower centre. Lambert painted with tight controlled brush strokes, so that the image seems still, but lifelike, with the
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When the “Squatter’s Daughter” was first shown, to the best of my knowledge, only three Australian artists proclaimed its originality and truth. Such a break with suave sentiment and surface drawing met with a protective opposition – here was almost an attack upon established income. It was
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pronounced hard, untrue, unsympathetic. To-day we know this landscape to possess the largest local truth, supreme draughtsmanship and design, and to exhale the very spirit of Australia.
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remarked that the painting was "different from anything else painted in Australia" and later that it was "an object lesson for the young landscape painters of Australia".
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In this painting Lambert set out to take a more formal approach to the Australian landscape, looking to reduce the landscape to definite forms.
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Lambert described his portrayal of Ryrie as "like a figure on a Greek vase" passing "gracefully across the foreground".
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was critical of the painting claiming that it lacked emotion. Another critic commented: "The Lambert landscape,
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The painting depicts Gwendoline ‘Dee’ Ryrie, the "squatter's daughter" wearing a white shirt and
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61.4 cm × 90.2 cm (24.2 in × 35.5 in)
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during World War I in Palestine while working as an official
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trees and grass delineated by a sharp, scintillating light
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standing by her horse in her family's farming property at
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George Washington Lambert
1924
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra
https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=155506
1924
George Washington Lambert
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra
jodhpurs
Michelago
Granville Ryrie
war artist
George Pitt-Rivers
James Fairfax
Philip Bacon
Howard Ashton
Streeton
Hans Heysen






"The squatter's daughter 1923-24"


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