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Suburb with storm approaching c.1960s

Artwork Suburb with storm approaching this artwork made of Watercolour and gouache on buff wove paper, created in 1960-01-01
Accession No.
2013.072
Date Created
c.1960s
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
49.5 x 64cm; 74 x 89cm (framed)
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour and gouache on buff wove paper
Credit Line
Gift of Ross McCowan in memory of his wife Joy Roggenkamp through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Joy Roggenkamp was acutely interested in nature and her work largely concentrated on landscapes. She also produced figurative studies and images of Brisbane and its suburbs, including a series of wonderfully expressionist scenes of the city in the 1960s, like Suburb with storm approaching. Her husband, Ross McCowan recalled that, as he was driving the family to their home in Nundah one day, Joy asked him to pull the car over to the side of the road so she could capture this tremendous scene.

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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.

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