Riverbed D
1981 · Oil paint on canvas
support: 1748 x 1368 mm
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Fred Williams
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Fred Williams: Landscapes of a Continent
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Prints: Acquisitions, 1973�1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
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Fred Williams was an Australian painter whose dynamic landscapes distilled the Australian bush into essential linear forms and gestural marks. Working primarily in oil and watercolor from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of parallel lines and broken contours that captured the visual experience of terrain rather than its topographical detail. His paintings move between abstraction and representation, treating eucalyptus forests and inland plains as sites for formal experimentation. Williams's approach redefined Australian landscape painting in the postwar period, establishing him as a central figure in modernist practice in the country.
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