“Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte” by Penleigh Boyd

“Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte” by Penleigh Boyd depicts bushland outside Melbourne, known for its wattle groves, and it is a quintessential Australian painting in landscape and palette. Wattle became a national floral symbol when it became part of Australia’s coat of arms in 1912.

Penleigh Boyd is a landscape artist with expert handling of evanescent effects of light. He was influenced by E. Phillips Fox, who introduced him to Plein air techniques when they were neighbors in Paris in 1912–3. His obituary at age 33 compared him to Arthur Streeton and praised him as one of the most promising painters of his generation.

Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte

• Title:             Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte
• Artist:           Penleigh Boyd
• Year:             1914
• Location:      Warrandyte, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Medium:      Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 91.5 h x 137.0 w cm
• Museum:      National Gallery of Australia

Penleigh Boyd

• Name:         Theodore Penleigh Boyd
• Born:           1890 – Westbury, Wiltshire, England
• Died:           1923 (aged 33) – Warragul, Victoria, Australia
• Nationality: Australian
• Major Paintings:
  • Ghost Gums at Kangaroo Flat, 1921.
  • Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte

A Tour of the National Gallery of Australia

• “The Green Parasol” by E. Phillips Fox
• “Landscape, Antibes (The Bay of Nice)” by John Peter Russell
• “Bridge and Wattle at Warrandyte” by Penleigh Boyd
• “Child in The Bush” by Frederick McCubbin
• “Miss Minna Simpson” by Tom Roberts
• “From McMahon’s Point – fare one penny” by Arthur Streeton
• “The Spirit of the Drought” by Arthur Streeton
• “Hot Wind” by Charles Conder
• “Purrumbete from across the Lake” by Eugene von Guerard
• Convict artist Richard Browne’s Watercolors
• “Govett’s Leap” by Eugene von Guerard
• “Pastorale” by Rupert Bunny
• “Meules, milieu du jour” by Claude Monet

A Tour of Museums  in Australia

• Museums in Sydney
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Australian Museum
  • Australian National Maritime Museum
  • Museum of Sydney
  • Powerhouse Museum
  • Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
  • Nicholson Museum
  • Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum
  • Museum of Fire

• Museums in Melbourne
  • National Gallery of Victoria
  • Melbourne Museum
  • Shrine of Remembrance
  • Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
  • State Library of Victoria
  • National Sports Museum
  • Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
  • Old Melbourne Gaol
  • Chinese Museum, Melbourne
  • Jewish Museum of Australia

• Museums in Canberra
  • National Museum of Australia
  • National Gallery of Australia
  • Australian War Memorial
  • National Portrait Gallery

• Museums in Brisbane
  • Queensland Art Gallery
  • Queensland Museum & Science Centre
  • MacArthur Museum Brisbane
  • RD Milns Antiquities Museum
  • Queensland Maritime Museum
  • Commissariat Store, Brisbane
  • Queensland Police Museum

• Museums in Perth
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia
  • WA Shipwrecks Museum
  • Perth Mint
  • WA Maritime Museum
  • Fremantle Prison

• Museums in Adelaide
  • Art Gallery of South Australia
  • South Australian Museum
  • Migration Museum, Adelaide

• Museums in Hobart
  • Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

• Museums in Darwin
  • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
  • Darwin Military Museum
  • Australian Aviation Heritage Centre

Australian Proverbs and Quotes

• Australian Proverbs and Quotes
• Australian Aboriginal Sayings and Quotes

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” Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.”
– Australian Proverb

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Photo Credits: 1) GM