In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the ...

Lenie Namatjira, "Mt Gillen, near Alice Springs" (2016), watercolor and fiber-tipped pen over pencil, 7.87 x 11 inches (© Lenie Namatjira/Licensed by Copyright ...

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Australian artist John Olsen, who died early this year aged 95, was honoured with a state-sponsored event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales acknowledging his more than seventy-year contribution to ...

Likeness and unlikeness : the American-Australian experience / Patrick McCaughey -- Landscape painting in America and Australia in an urban century / Elizabeth Johns -- The shaping of Australian ...

Suey McEnnally is the winner of the 2012 Paddington Art Prize, which recognises Australian landscape painting.