Possibly - Paintings by William Frater, Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 14 - 25 November 1944
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William Frater
(Street with Trees), c. 1940
SOLD
oil on board
40.00 x 50.50
signed l.r.; signed and titled on reverse
Exhibited:
Literature & references:
Dick Whittman, William Frater - a life with colour, Melbourne University Press, 2000, see plate 17, for a related work in the Geelong Art Gallery, and pp 52 and 90 for the text;
'Most of Frater's street scenes - Fitzroy and Carlton were the preferred inner suburbs - date from the war years when petrol rationing restricted travel. They tend to have anonymous titles such as 'A Narrow Street', 'Street in Winter' and 'the Little Street' - suggesting the artist was more interested in the nature of the light and the perspectives than in the specifics of the topography.'
See also, William Frater - 1890-1974, Niagara Galleries, exh cat, June 1991, no 5, for a similar scene
Further works by the Artist
(Mt Sonder, Central Australia)
William Frater
1950
oil on canvas on plywood, 72.50 x 99.00
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