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Golden Summer, Eaglemont
Painting by Arthur Streeton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Golden Summer, Eaglemont is an 1889 landscape painting by Australian artist Arthur Streeton. Painted en plein air at the height of a summer drought, it is an idyllic depiction of sunlit, undulating plains that stretch from Streeton's Eaglemont "artists' camp" to the distant blue Dandenong Ranges, outside Melbourne. Naturalistic yet poetic, and a conscious effort by the 21-year-old Streeton to create his grandest work yet, it is a prime example of the artist's distinctive, high-keyed blue and gold palette, what he considered "nature's scheme of colour in Australia".
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Artist | Arthur Streeton |
Year | 1889 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 81.3 cm × 152.6 cm (32.01 in × 60.08 in) |
Location | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
The National Gallery of Australia acquired the painting in 1995 for $3.5 million, then a record price for an Australian painting. It remains one of Streeton's most famous works and is considered a masterpiece of Australian Impressionism.