Capital and Country
The Federation Years 1900–1914
Frederick McCubbin, Flood waters, 1913, purchased 1973
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
The drover
1906
The woodcutter
1914
Triumphal Arch at Princes Bridge, Melbourne
1901
Australia House sketches: Shearing (version b) [recto]: Sketch for On the seaweed (version b) [verso]
c.1914
The saplings
1904
Near Liverpool, New South Wales
c.1908
Flood waters
1913
A haven beneath the hill, St Ives
c.1908
Snow, Montmartre
c.1912
The quay, Milsons Point
1908
The sonnet
c.1907
Qui vient? [Who comes?]
c.1908
Madame Hartl
1909-10
The boy with the palette
1911
Dawn landscape
c.1905
