“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
Australian Proverbs 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