Australian art has traditionally been centred around ... and how art itself is compelled to pay homage to its own traditions. Fred Williams at the You Yangs is at Geelong Gallery until November ...

Fred was very untidy,” Lyn Williams says of her late husband, the great Australian landscape painter. “He did etching on the table he ate from. He put a saucepan on the sink and it went into ...

When Fred Williams died on April 22 1982, aged 55, Australia lost one of its most significant landscape artists of the second half of the 20th century. Williams reinterpreted the landscape within ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. A hint at a fascinating link between Australian landscape artist Fred Williams and an American heiress to the Life Savers candy ...

These artists, like some of their predecessors, did not merely impose a distinctive shape on the Australian landscape ... 1963, from Fred Williams in the You Yangs, Geelong Gallery.

Fred Williams is regarded as Australia's finest landscape artist since Arthur Streeton. The recently-sold work Forest Pond (1974) remains part of the exhibition of Williams' works at Philip Bacon ...

He had applied, simply and convincingly, the abstract and minimalist aesthetic of the New York School to the Australian landscape. You Yang Pond, 1963 (detail).Credit: Fred Williams/Art Gallery of ...

A retrospective exhibition at the British Museum in 2004 confirmed Fred Williams’ reputation as an internationally significant artist. The Australian Arts Sales Digest said the highest price ...

The canvases by Arthur Boyd and Fred Williams adorned the Australian ... will be tested when he joins a who’s who of modern Australian art - and a few Lucian Freuds - in Smith & Singer’s ...

and give some of the asset away.” Fred Williams's Sapling Forest (around 1960-62), est. A$180,000-240,000 In the late 1980s, Brown and Australian art historian Bernard Smith approached the ...

The Fred Williams painting ... Bacon said anyone interested in Australian art would be welcome to come in to his Fortitude Valley gallery to browse. No pressure.