Australian Art

Capital and Country: The Federation Years 1900–1914

Learning Resource

Impressionistic landscape painting with river, horses, small shack and rolling hills

Frederick McCubbin, Flood waters, 1913, purchased 1973

Primary
Year 5–6
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Discover the parallel stories of Federation landscape painting in Australia and the art produced by Australians living and working in Europe from 1900 to 1914.

Overview

Curriculum Connections

Visual Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, History, Civics and Citizenship

Themes

Federation, Landscape, National identity, Australian Impressionism

Art & Artists

Featured

Harry Garlick
The drover
1906

Percy Leason
The woodcutter
1914

Frederick McCubbin
Triumphal Arch at Princes Bridge, Melbourne
1901

Rupert Bunny
Australia House sketches: Shearing (version b) [recto]: Sketch for On the seaweed (version b) [verso]
c.1914

Hans Heysen
The saplings
1904

W.C. Piguenit
Near Liverpool, New South Wales
c.1908

Frederick McCubbin
Flood waters
1913

Richard Hayley-Lever
A haven beneath the hill, St Ives
c.1908

Hilda Rix Nicholas
Snow, Montmartre
c.1912

Ethel Carrick
The quay, Milsons Point
1908

George W. Lambert
The sonnet
c.1907

Rupert Bunny
Qui vient? [Who comes?]
c.1908

Tom Roberts
Madame Hartl
1909-10

Violet Teague
The boy with the palette
1911

Florence Fuller
Dawn landscape
c.1905