Title
Evening train to Hawthorn
(circa 1889)
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- Spencer Street Station
Evening, Princes Bridge
The last train to Hawthorn - Place where the work was made
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Melbourne
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Victoria
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Australia
- Date
- (circa 1889)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on cedar panel
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 22.6 cm board; 34.6 x 50.2 x 4.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Edward Stinson Bequest Fund 1991
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 158.1991
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tom Roberts
Works in the collection
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About
"An effect is only momentary ... two half hours are never alike ... So, in these works, it has been the object of the artists to render faithfully, and thus obtain first records of effects widely differing, and often of very fleeting character."
- The 9 by 5 Exhibition of Impressions catalogue 1889'The national game' and Tom Roberts' 'Evening train to Hawthorn' are two of the 182 'Impressions' that were exhibited in the influential '9 by 5 Exhibition of Impressions' held at Buxton's Gallery in Swanston Street, Melbourne, in August 1889. All works in the exhibition were similar in size. They were painted on small panels, mostly cigar box lids roughly nine by five inches, and similarly framed, in wide, flat, wooden frames with highlights of metallic colour.
The 9 by 5 exhibition was intended to provoke a response because such paintings would normally have been considered preliminary sketches for larger works and consequently unsuitable for public exhibition. The exhibition proved to be central to the development and subsequent reputation of the Heidelberg School and was a turning point in the history of Australian landscape painting.
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Places
Where the work was made
Melbourne
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Exhibition history
Shown in 12 exhibitions
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, Buxton's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 17 Aug 1889 -
Tom Roberts - Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 1947–Jan 1948
Fine Australian paintings and certain European paintings including the property of the late Sylvia Bertha Purves (niece of Tom Roberts) (1976), William S. Ellenden Pty Ltd, Sydney, 10 May 1976–12 May 1976
Australian paintings: colonial/impressionist/ early modern, Deutscher Fine Art (Melbourne), Malvern, 30 Oct 1984–16 Nov 1984
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 30 Oct 1985–27 Jan 1986
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Feb 1986–20 Apr 1986
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 09 May 1986–29 Jun 1986
Golden Summers - Heidelberg and beyond, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 30 Jul 1986–14 Sep 1986
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 05 Oct 1996–17 Nov 1996
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 30 Nov 1996–27 Jan 1997
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 12 Feb 1997–06 Apr 1997
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Apr 1997–01 Jun 1997
Tom Roberts (1996-1997), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 11 Jun 1997–27 Jul 1997
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Australian Impressionism, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 31 Mar 2007–08 Jul 2007
Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21 Sep 2013–08 Dec 2013
Tom Roberts Retrospective, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 04 Dec 2015–28 Mar 2016
She-oak and sunlight: Australian Impressionism, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 02 Apr 2021–22 Aug 2021
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 12 publications
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Jane Clark and Bridget Whitelaw, Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond, Melbourne, 1985, 121 (colour illus.).
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Mary Eagle, Tom Roberts, 'A Painter Making Himself', pg. 38, Adelaide, 1996, 56, 201 (illus.).
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Anna Gray, Tom Roberts, 'Catalogue of works', pg. 93-329, Canberra, 2015, 168, 169, 349. cat.no. 40
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Anne Gray, Australia, 'Art nation: Australian landscape 1880-1920', pg. 146-183, London, 2013, 166 (colour illus.). cat.no. 105
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Terence Lane, Australian Impressionism, 'The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition - The Challenge of the Sketch', pg. 157-163, Melbourne, 2007, 337, 171 (colour illus.). cat.no. 9.27
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tom Roberts exhibition, National Art Gallery of NSW: souvenir catalogue, Sydney, 1947, 16. titled 'Evening, Princes Bridge'; cat.no. 50
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Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 1 - Text, Melbourne, 1985, 108. cat.no. 127
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Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 2 - Plates, Melbourne, 1985, (colour illus.). plate no. 57
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Vivienne Webb, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Golden age', pg. 37-38, Sydney, 2000, 56 (colour illus.), 302.
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William S. Ellenden Pty Ltd, Catalogue of fine Australian paintings and certain European paintings including the property of the late Sylvia Bertha Purves (niece of Tom Roberts), Sydney, 1976, 12 (colour illus.). titled 'Spencer Street Station'; lot no. 118
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Author Unknown, 9 x 5: Exhibition of Impressions, Melbourne, 1889, 6. cat.no. 77; priced 1 guinea
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Deutscher Fine Art: Australian paintings: colonial/impressionist/early modern, Carlton, Oct 1984. cat.no. 38; not paginated
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