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McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907-1917
Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917) was a son of Melbourne. He was born and brought up in working-class Melbourne, he trained at the National Gallery of Victoria’s art school from 1872 to 1886 and was drawing master there from 1886 to 1917. He lived in Melbourne and its surrounds for his entire life (bar a few months), and made Melbourne the central subject of his art. No other Melbourne artist was better known than he during his lifetime.
Working together with Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder in Melbourne between 1885 and 1890, McCubbin was part of the legendary group in Australian art—the Australian impressionists. He was also a friend of E Phillips Fox and Tudor St George Tucker, and his association with them expanded his approach to art.
McCubbin had a gentle presence, and the air of a poet and dreamer. He was kindly, sincere and single-minded in his outlook. He was energetic, fun, warm and gregarious—and would gesticulate freely with his arms and hands. He was a thinking man, and he liked to make others think and laugh; an extensive and discriminating reader, particularly of biography and high fiction, he enjoyed talking on a wide range of topics.
From 1907 to 1917 McCubbin produced his most brilliant works, ones which express his sense of delight in, and comfort within, the Australian landscape. He made a major change in his approach to his art when he returned to Melbourne after his first and only trip to Europe in 1907, aged 52.
In his last impressions McCubbin painted sparkling landscapes. He used many colours—pinks, purples, blues, yellows, reds and a huge variety of green. And he captured the effects of light: the light of early morning and early nightfall, the glow of the setting sun and its afterglow. He conveyed the cool of winter and the warmth of summer, as well as the crackle of the undergrowth and the rustle of wind in the trees.
McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–1917
Venue: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Dates: 14/08/09 – 01/11/09
Official Site: www.nga.gov.au
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