Frederick McCubbin

Leonard Joel, 26 July 1989, lot 76;
Private Collection, Melbourne;
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne;
Private Collection, Sydney

A Happy Life: Frederick McCubbin’s Small Paintings & Oil Sketches, (no. 30, as ‘The Pool, Heidelberg’), National Gallery of Victoria, 1991 and touring to Ballarat Fine Art Gallery;
City of Hamilton Art Gallery; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston;
Benalla Art Gallery;
Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre;
La Trobe Valley Arts Centre, Morwell until 31 October 1992;
19th & 20th Century Australian Painting Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1 May - 7 June 1996, no. 10; 40 Australian Paintings, Savill Galleries, Sydney, March 2016, no. 17, as ‘The Pool, Heidelberg’;
Fine Art Collectors’ Exhibition, 6 August — 17 September 2016, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, no. 26 as ‘View of the Yarra’

Clark, J., A Happy Life: Frederick McCubbin’s Small Paintings & Oil Sketches, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1991, p 6, 20 (illus), 22

The poem ‘My Country’ published by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908 infamously described Australia as the ‘land of drought and flooding rains’. Since Mackellar penned her famous poem, Australia’s average temperature has increased by 1oC, with most warming occurring since 1950. Many Australians accept the concept of the nation’s weather as captured in this romantic poem, sometimes dismissing what we are experiencing now as just part of our natural climate cycles. However, in recent decades our country has been ravaged by an increased frequency and severity of extreme drought, flood and fires. As Australians we pride ourselves in our resilient spirit, but scientists now fear that the rate and severity of climate change may overwhelm our capacity to adapt to a rapidly warming world. This has started an important conversation in our society and governments to reflect on our understanding of climate change.
Dr Joelle Gergis, April 2019