ELIOTH GRUNER (1882-1939)
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ELIOTH GRUNER (1882-1939)

Cotter and Murrumbidgee Rivers

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ELIOTH GRUNER (1882-1939)
Cotter and Murrumbidgee Rivers
signed and dated 'Gruner/1933' (lower right)
oil on canvas
62 x 74.5 cm
1
Provenance
Hotel Canberra, Canberra
Sir Keith Murdoch, Booroomba Station,ACT
Mr G Gathyles, Uriarra Station, ACT
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Lot Essay

Related works: 'On the Murrumbidgee 1929' Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; 'Murrumbidgee Ranges, Canberra 1934', Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; 'Weetangera, Canberra 1937', Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. The works listed above were all awarded the Wynne Prize for Landscape in the years of their execution.

"In later years Gruner was to establish a type of landscape as definite and personal as Streeton's - a landscape of pale, distant mountains and rolling grey-green hills, dotted with dark trees." (R Campbell, Art in Australia, 23 May 1940, p. 31)

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