Publication Details 290 x 230 mm (portrait), 306 pages, hardback bound in printed Wibalin. ISBN: 9781760761905
Author and/or Editor name/s Anne Gray and Angela Hesson (editors), with contributors
Author and/or Editor bio/s Dr Anne Gray AM is an art historian and independent curator with more than forty years’ experience working in art museums.
Dr Angela Hesson is Curator, Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts (to 1980) at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Year of publication 2021
Publisher National Gallery of Victoria and Thames & Hudson Australia
Abstract The Australian Impressionists are among the most loved figures of Australian art, and their work has long formed an imaginative backdrop to life in this country. She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism offers diverse perspectives on this complex movement and the artists who participated in it, drawing together the threads that comprise its multifaceted nature. This publication explores the importance of historical contexts, personal relationships, international influences, and the impact of place on the trajectory of Impressionism in Australia. Other art forms which intersected with Impressionism, including music and photography, are also considered in detail. With contributions by Anne Gray, Angela Hesson, Helen Ennis, Ann Galbally, Sophie Gerhard, Elizabeth Kertesz, Hannah Presley and MaryAnne Stevens, She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism presents new scholarship on the movement’s most celebrated figures, as well as many lesserknown artists. It features more than 200 works from collections around Australia, several of which have undergone transformative conservation treatments.
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