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Barron Falls 1906

Accession No.
1:1155
Date Created
1906
Gallery location
On display in QAG Gallery 10
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
128.9 x 86.2cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
oil
Medium
Oil on canvas
Credit Line
Gift of the Agent-General for Queensland, London 1971

Winifred Quinnell attended the South Kensington School of Art, London from 1886 to 1887 and settled in Queensland after her marriage to Thomas Rumney. She taught in Queensland, travelled to Victoria and Tasmania and returned to Queensland where, by 1908, she was teaching in Cairns. The scale and ambition of Barron Falls is unusual, as many women artists in Australia at this time were content with producing flower studies.

The painting has an almost pre-Raphaelite intensity in the detailed rendering of the water surging over rocks.

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