• Title
  Vineyard, Castle Hill, 1927 / by Robert Johnson
• Creator
  Robert Johnson, 1890-1964
• Call number
  ML 1487
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 27
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1927
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1005616
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - 36.5 x 44.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Robert Johnson, landscape artist, was born in 1890 in Auckland, New Zealand where he later trained at the Elam School of Art. He served with the NZ armed forces during World War 1 and in 1921 settled in Sydney. A prolific oil painter of impressionist landscapes, he made regular painting tours in Australia and sold his work through galleries in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide. He died in Sydney in 1964.
  
  References:
  Library correspondence file
• Collection history
  Sotheby’s, Fine Colonial Australian Paintings and Drawings, Sydney, 24 November 1985; Private collection, Sydney.
• Scope and Content
  The painting depicts rural scene showing farm house and vineyard in foreground with a road leading into the distance. Horizon view to the Blue Mountains in the distance.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years.
  Approval for reproduction required: No reproduction without prior written approval of copyright holder.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Estate of Robert Johnson
• Description source
  
  Title taken from frame inscription.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower edge “Robert Johnson 1927”.
• Subject
  Painting, Australian--20th century
  Landscape painting, Australian.
  Castle Hill (N.S.W.)--History.
  
• Topic
  country scenes
  country life
  farmhouses
  vineyards
  mountain ranges
  country roads
  landscapes (views)
  
• Place
  Castle Hill (N.S.W.)
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8954919

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