Title
The railway station, Redfern
1893
Artist
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Details
- Other Titles
- The railway station
Old Redfern Station
Redfern Station - Place where the work was made
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Redfern
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1893
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.8 x 61.0 cm stretcher; 63.0 x 83.0 x 5.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown oil "Arthur Streeton/ 1893.".
- Credit
- Gift of Lady Denison 1942
- Location
- Naala Nura, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 7209
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Arthur Streeton
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About
The subject of this work is the old Redfern Station, situated on Devonshire Street, just south of where Sydney's Central Station is now located. Painted three years after Arthur Streeton first visited Sydney, 'The railway station, Redfern' is an atmospheric study of rain and light. It falls within the tradition of tonal paintings of wet urban scenes which existed alongside the nationalistic evocations of sunlight and heat in Australian painting of this period.
Streeton's choice of modern railway subject matter and his evocative approach were influenced by French and British impressionism as well as the decorative, asymmetrical design and flattened picture plane of Japanese woodcuts.
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Places
Where the work was made
Redfern
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Exhibition history
Shown in 25 exhibitions
Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of New South Wales (1893), Society Rooms, Union Chambers, Sydney, 1893 -
Streeton's Sydney sunshine exhibition (1896), Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 30 Nov 1896 -
Loan exhibition of Australian Art (1918), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1918–1918
Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 05 Sep 1944–07 Oct 1944
Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 09 Nov 1944–10 Dec 1944
Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Apr 1945–20 May 1945
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 12 Mar 1951–31 Mar 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Launceston, 09 Apr 1951–28 Apr 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Jun 1951–21 Jul 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 06 Aug 1951–01 Sep 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 Sep 1951–20 Oct 1951
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 12 Nov 1951–10 Dec 1951
A retrospective exhibition of Australian painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Sep 1953–25 Oct 1953
The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games (1956), National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 18 Nov 1956–15 Dec 1956
Australian paintings by Arthur Streeton and Arthur Boyd: The XXIX Venice Biennale (1958), Exhibition Venue Unknown, , 1958–1958
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 17 Mar 1962–31 Mar 1962
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 23 Sep 1962–24 Oct 1962
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary (1962-63), Tate Britain, England, 24 Jan 1963–03 Mar 1963
European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian paintings of the 19th century, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 10 Sep 1979 -
European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian paintings of the 19th century, State Hermitage Museum, Russia, 04 Dec 1979–18 Feb 1980
A century of Australian landscape painting: mood and moment, Peking Art Gallery, Beijing, Oct 1983–Dec 1983
A century of Australian landscape painting: mood and moment, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai, Oct 1983–Dec 1983
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
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan, 28 Apr 1992–28 Jun 1992
Two hundred years of Australian painting : Nature, people and art in the southern continent, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 14 Jul 1992–06 Sep 1992
Paint on the tracks: Australian artists and the railway, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 22 Apr 1994–29 May 1994
Arthur Streeton, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne, 08 Dec 1995–12 Feb 1996
Arthur Streeton, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 01 Mar 1996–14 Apr 1996
Arthur Streeton, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 01 May 1996–16 Jun 1996
Arthur Streeton, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 08 Jul 1996–25 Aug 1996
Arthur Streeton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Oct 1996–24 Nov 1996
New Worlds From Old: Australian and American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 07 Mar 1998–17 May 1998
New Worlds From Old: Australian and American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, United States of America, 12 Sep 1998–06 Dec 1998
New Worlds From Old: Australian and American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, United States of America, 26 Jan 1999–18 Apr 1999
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart (2002), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 12 Jan 2002–24 Feb 2002
Sydney studios, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 14 Aug 2004–26 Sep 2004
Australian Impressionism, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 31 Mar 2007–08 Jul 2007
Streeton's Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 04 Aug 2007–23 Sep 2007
Australia's Impressionists, National Gallery, London, London, 07 Dec 2016–26 Mar 2017
Streeton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Nov 2020–14 Feb 2021
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 70 publications
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Anne Galbally, Arthur Streeton, 'Chelsea, 1898-1908', pg. 34-55, Melbourne, 1969, 18, 43 (colour illus.). plate no. 18
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Pat Kreuiter, Look, 'Learning to look at art: introducing and inspiring art lovers of the future', pg. 12-13, Sydney, Oct 2008, 12 (colour illus.). NOTE: Group of school children in front of painting.
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Lionel Lindsay and Robert Campbell, Australia paintings by Arthur Streeton and Arthur Boyd: the XXIX Biennale Venice 1958, Australia, 1958. cat.no. 4
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Patrick McCaughey and Jack Manton, Australian painters of the heidelberg school, Melbourne, 1979, 30, 62.
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 15 (colour illus.).
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John McDonald, Art of Australia. Vol 1: Exploration to Federation, ‘Individual and national feeling’, pg. 545-610, Sydney, 2008, 576, 577, 579 (colour illus.).
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Paul McGillick., The Australian financial review, 'The best of Streeton', Sydney, 08 Nov 1996, 21 (illus.), 32.
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Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart, Favourites: Margaret Olley and Jeffrey Smart selections, Sydney, 2002. NOTE: no catalogue numbers; Jeffrey Smart selection.
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Barry Pearce and Haruo Arikawa, Two hundred years of Australian painting: nature, people and art in the southern continent, 'Section 2: Australian Impressionism', pg. 69-132, Tokyo, 1992, 99 (colour illus.). cat.no. 54
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