'The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.
'Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler-colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today?
'In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.'
Source : publisher's blurb
A glowing review of the Atlas: 'The work is superbly got up, the engravings and illustrations being works of art, the maps finished productions, and the letter press and paper all that can be desired, - as may be imagined when it is stated that the estimated cash outlay for the production of the Work has already exceeded £60,000. The Work in question gives a panorama of Australian history and life, from the days of the earliest Spanish and Dutch navigators, and the landing of Captain Cook in 1770, down to the present time [1888], with characteristic sketches of the scenery from sea, mountain, forest, and city and everything relating to our Colonial life and enterprise'.
A glowing review of the Atlas: 'The work is superbly got up, the engravings and illustrations being works of art, the maps finished productions, and the letter press and paper all that can be desired, - as may be imagined when it is stated that the estimated cash outlay for the production of the Work has already exceeded £60,000. The Work in question gives a panorama of Australian history and life, from the days of the earliest Spanish and Dutch navigators, and the landing of Captain Cook in 1770, down to the present time [1888], with characteristic sketches of the scenery from sea, mountain, forest, and city and everything relating to our Colonial life and enterprise'.
'The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian artist of the Heidelberg era.
'Fullwood's illustrations for the popular Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and the Bulletin, as well as leading Australian and English newspapers, helped shape how settler-colonial Australia was seen both here and around the world. Meanwhile his paintings were as celebrated as those of his good friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton. So why is Fullwood so little known today?
'In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life, while casting a new light on the most fabled era in the history of Australian art.'
Source : publisher's blurb