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(Flying cloud) c.1950

Accession No.
1999.188
Date Created
c.1950
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
38 x 47.7cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour over pencil on paper
Place Created
Mount Emlyn, Darling Downs, Qld
Credit Line
Purchased 1999 with funds from National Australia Bank Limited through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Kenneth Macqueen was inspired by the natural patterns he observed around his farm at Mount Emlyn on the Darling Downs, and found particular delight in clouds:

Living on the top of a mountain range, as I do, cloud formations offer a never-ending source of interest; very seldom is the sky devoid of cloud patterns sweeping into designs of lively beauty . . . Often the sky is the cause of my painting a subject.

Here, the unusual meteorological formation is the sole purpose of the painting — the landscape is barely alluded to.

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© Kenneth Macqueen Estate

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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'

Aug 2025 - Jan 2026

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