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Storm sweeping on Glasshouse Mountains c.1950

Accession No.
1:0903
Date Created
c.1950
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
41.5 x 53cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour on laid paper mounted on cardboard
Credit Line
Acquired before 1969

Robert Campbell’s watercolour captures an air of brooding mystery surrounding the Glass House Mountains in the midst of a storm. Campbell’s is one of many representations of the south-east Queensland landmark in the Gallery’s Collection. This work was reproduced in The 1950 Courier-Mail Annual: Queensland, where the caption read: 

Storm sweeping on Glasshouse Mountains, by Mr Robert Campbell, recently appointed Director of the Queensland National Art Gallery, who was commissioned by The Courier-Mail to paint this picture.

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© Robert Campbell

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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

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