• Title
  Item 03: A Gleam of Light, ca. 1910 / by Frederick McCubbin
• Call number
  ML 1293
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 136
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1910
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1025628
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - visible image 49.4 x 74.5 cm, in frame 81.2 x 105.6 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  This view by McCubbin is set in the valley below McCubbin’s Mount Macedon home, Fontaineleau. It depicts a scene looking north-west from Mount Macedon with the late rays of sun filtering through the trees onto cattle grazing. “As in many of his paintings of the bush, the undergrowth in the foreground has been painted, and when dried, smoothed back with pumice stone and then repainted so that the warmth and glow of the first layer of paint highlights the paint on the surface” (Sotheby's). This painting reflects emerging, Edwardian, approaches to landscape painting. It is an important representation of the way Australians could conceive of, and engage with, their environment which was not all about harsh lights and blue skies.
  
  Reference:
  Sale catalogue, Sotheby’s Australia, November 1993, lot 265.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1045553
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated, lower left
• Creator/Author/Artist
  McCubbin, Frederick, 1855-1917
  
• Subject
  Landscape painting, Australian.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (artwork)
  cows
  landscapes (views)
  trees
  
• Place
  Mount Macedon (Vic.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (20 October, 2013 - 20 March, 2014)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3298811

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