Frederick McCubbin (1855 –1917) was an Australian painter and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.
A knowledge of the techniques and materials used by Frederick McCubbin throughout his career, together with a careful examination of the artist’s paintings, reveals McCubbin’s late work to be as technically complex and fastidiously constructed as his early work. The apparent spontaneity of the paintings is misleading. Throughout his life, discussion of the craft of painting filled McCubbin’s letters and writings, which make only fleeting reference to the narrative element in his work. It is intriguing to note the number of commentators in the 1890s – and even the 1990s – who contrive plausible story-lines to accompany the paintings, while McCubbin’s own writings, and the works themselves, point strongly to an artist increasingly interested in the emotional resonance created by the painted surface itself.
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| Frederick McCubbin Self-portrait, circa 1886 |
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| Still life, circa 1882 |
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| Falls Bridge, Melbourne, circa 1882 |
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| Old stables, circa 1884 |
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| Still life of roses, circa 1884 |
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| Home again, circa 1884 |
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| Lost, circa 1886 |
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| Melbourne, circa 1888 |
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| Autumn memories, circa 1889 |
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| The runaway, circa 1891 |
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| A winter evening, circa 1897 |
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| Mezger's Mill, near Hobart, Tasmania, circa 1899 |
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| Bush study, circa 1902 |
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| The pioneer, circa 1904 |
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| The wattle glade, circa 1905 |
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| Lost, circa 1907 |
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| Roadmaking, circa 1907 |
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| Portrait head of Alexander McCubbin, circa 1908 |
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| Richmond from Kensington Road, South Yarra, circa 1908 |
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| Princes Bridge, circa 1908 |
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| Summer evening, circa 1908 |
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| Moonrise, circa 1909 |
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| Retrieve, circa 1909 |
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| Landscape, South Yarra, circa 1910 |
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| Australian scene, circa 1910 |
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| Ti-tree glade, circa 1910 |
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| Camel's Hump, circa 1912 |
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| Shelling peas, circa 1912 |
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| Forest camp, circa 1914 |
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| Summer sea, circa 1914 |
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| The pool, circa 1914 |
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| Winter's morning, circa 1914 |
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| Petit déjeuner - sketch for After breakfast |
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