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Long Beach c.1954

Artwork Long Beach this artwork made of Coloured pencil and gouache on paper
Accession No.
2010.067
Date Created
c.1954
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
22 x 27.6cm
Media Category
Drawing
Secondary Media Category
pencil
Medium
Coloured pencil and gouache on paper
Place Created
Cairns
Credit Line
Gift of Dr Peter Lavarack in memory of Joan Innes Reid AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2010

Joe Rootsey is inevitably compared to Albert Namatjira, who used Western watercolour materials and techniques to paint his country in Central Australia. Rootsey is very much his own artist, however, using a tropical palette of blues, greens and yellows characteristic of the rainforest and waterways of East Cape York to paint his own deep affiliations with Country.

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

Works installed for 'Under a Modern Sun', Gallery 4, QAG, August 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA

'Under a Modern Sun'

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