Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek

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Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek
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Artist Tom Roberts
Year 1885
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions47.0 cm× 66.0 cm(18.5 in× 26.0 in)
Location Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek is an 1885 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. [1] The painting depicts a man on horseback driving a small group of cattle across a timber trestle bridge over Gardiners Creek, then on the outskirts of Melbourne.

In Roberts’s marvellously designed 1885 view of a bridge over a creek, with its elongated forms created from wooden pillars and their reflections in water, and the inventive positioning of the bridge’s fence, so it becomes a decorative rectangular pattern along the top edge of the painting, Roberts engages in a typical Impressionist subject, and the movement’s interest in unusual visual angles. But he avoids dissolving the subject into a pulverised world of colour effects. The result is a painting much more like Whistler than Monet ...

The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2011 as a gift from the MJM Carter AO collection to celebrate the gallery's 130th anniversary. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek". collection. Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  2. Collings, Matthew (6 December 2016). "Australia's Impressionists, exhibition review: A fascinating show on an explosive theme". Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 July 2018.