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Michael Shannon

Landscape of Sydney, 1969

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oil on canvas

151.00 x 122.00

signed and dated l.l.

Provenance: Previously Ord Minnett (c 1970 to 1997)

Literature & references: City/Art, Heineman Educational Australia, 1978, illus p 42; (as Landscape of Sydney 144 x 122cm; and, collection of Ord Minnett). In Shannons cityscapes of the 1950s an upward perspective tended to prevail. But his 1960 oil Urban Panorama looks out from an artificial height across the urban sprawl in a manner reminiscent of the isometric views in favour in the 19th century a viewpoint followed in other city paintings of 1961-2. 1968-9 saw a renewed commitment: Early morning, Melbourne, won the McCaughey Prize at the NGV in 1969, with its sweeping view of buildings clustered along the bayside shoreline; Early morning, Sydney (152 x 183) and its companion piece, the above Landscape of Sydney, both look south across the city rooftops from, it seems, one of the then new skyscrapers; however the latter with its narrower format includes two tall buildings in the middle ground which accentuate the vertical composition. For Early morning, Sydney see Morrison Cross Miller, McCaughey, Michael Shannon Australian Romantic Realist, retrospective exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2011, p. 87, and detail on front cover

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1946

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1946

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Near Baynton

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1982

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1976

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1987

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1982

pencil and pastel on paper, 72.00 x 52.00

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c. 1960

ink and wash on paper, 16.50 x 19.50

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