Storm Approaching Wangi | |
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Artist | William Dobell |
Year | 1948 |
Medium | oil on cardboard on composition board |
Dimensions | 32.5 cm × 55.5 cm (12.8 in × 21.9 in) |
Location | Private collection |
Storm Approaching Wangi is a 1948 painting by Australian artist Sir William Dobell. The painting depicts a storm at Wangi Wangi, New South Wales. [1]
Dobell's successful Wynne landscape entry is more conventional, although still typical Dobell in feeling. Two men and a woman are in the foreground at the edge of a lake drawing a boat to the shore. The menace of an approaching storm is typified by a stark black tree nearby, a threatening sky and a deserted background.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales awarded the work the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1948. [3] Dobell was awarded the Archibald Prize that same year for his portrait of artist Margaret Olley. [2] Dobell painted the work after retiring to Wangi Wangi following the controversy over his portrait Mr Joshua Smith which was the subject of a court challenge after it was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1943. [1]
Gallery director Mark Widdup described the painting as "one of the most important landscape works of the 20th century." [4]
It is a landscape painting of historical importance becoming more significant as it was a painting that cemented the artist's credibility once more after his reputation in the art world was challenged
— Mark Widdup, [5]
Dobell sold the work to Frank and Thelma Clune in 1948. It was then sold to a corporate collection in 1991. The work was most recently sold in 2016 for AUD408,700 to a private collector. [6]
Storm Approaching Wangi | |
---|---|
Artist | William Dobell |
Year | 1948 |
Medium | oil on cardboard on composition board |
Dimensions | 32.5 cm × 55.5 cm (12.8 in × 21.9 in) |
Location | Private collection |
Storm Approaching Wangi is a 1948 painting by Australian artist Sir William Dobell. The painting depicts a storm at Wangi Wangi, New South Wales. [1]
Dobell's successful Wynne landscape entry is more conventional, although still typical Dobell in feeling. Two men and a woman are in the foreground at the edge of a lake drawing a boat to the shore. The menace of an approaching storm is typified by a stark black tree nearby, a threatening sky and a deserted background.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales awarded the work the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1948. [3] Dobell was awarded the Archibald Prize that same year for his portrait of artist Margaret Olley. [2] Dobell painted the work after retiring to Wangi Wangi following the controversy over his portrait Mr Joshua Smith which was the subject of a court challenge after it was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1943. [1]
Gallery director Mark Widdup described the painting as "one of the most important landscape works of the 20th century." [4]
It is a landscape painting of historical importance becoming more significant as it was a painting that cemented the artist's credibility once more after his reputation in the art world was challenged
— Mark Widdup, [5]
Dobell sold the work to Frank and Thelma Clune in 1948. It was then sold to a corporate collection in 1991. The work was most recently sold in 2016 for AUD408,700 to a private collector. [6]