Sydney Long

The spirit of the land

Exhibition
17 Aug – 11 Nov 2012
Eight pink flamingoes stand in a body of water, some dipping their beaks into the water

Sydney Long, Flamingoes, 1905, purchased 1975, Reproduced with the kind permission of the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia

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Sydney Long is Australia’s foremost Art Nouveau painter, whose work is much loved. His art flourished in the imaginatively stimulating atmosphere in Sydney in the 1890s and 1900s, when he achieved early success with one of his best-known works, By tranquil waters 1894. It was a precursor to the paintings in which he peopled the Australian bush with mythological figures, painted in an Art Nouveau style.

Text sourced from: Gray, Anne. Sydney Long : The Spirit of the Land. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2012.

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The original website for this exhibition was published in 2012 and has been archived for research purposes.

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Video

Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land

Video still of a painting.

Published 04 September 2012

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Sydney Long 'Flamingoes'

Published 16 December 2010

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