LANDSCAPE ART IN' AUSTRALIA 



of combining the real with the ideal he has found the true lines on 

 which the landscape painter should work. He is a hard worker and a 

 close student, various branches of art having engaged his attention as 

 a designer and modeller he shows high ability. He holds the position 

 of Art Supervisor to the National Gallery of South Australia, and has 

 charge of the department of Printsand Drawings, etc. He has exhibited 

 at the Royal Academy, and is represented by two pictures in the 

 Adelaide Gallery. 



John White (pp. 78 to 81), an Englishman by birth though resident 

 in Australia for over thirty years, is practically self-taught, and is free 

 from academic forms. He possesses in a high degree true artistic dis- 

 cernment and a fine appreciation of colour and atmosphere. His subjects 

 are admirably chosen, and his landscapes are rich in tone and permeated 

 with a beautiful atmospheric glow. He is represented by three canvases 

 in the South Australian Art Gallery, and is a past President of the South 

 Australian Society of Arts. 



Edward Davies (pp. 62 and 63) is a native of Wales, but is to all intents 

 and purposes Australian, coming out with his parents when quite an 

 infant. He is an architect by profession, and it is as a recreation and out 

 of pure love for art that he paints pictures. In considering the variety 

 and general excellence of his work and the influence he exerts, he must 

 be assigned a prominent place amongst those who have been largely in- 

 strumental in building up a national school of painting. As an architect 

 he has an Australian reputation, is Vice-President of the South Austra- 

 lian Society of Arts, and Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee of the 

 Art Gallery, etc., of South Australia. In the State Gallery he is repre- 

 sented by a fine landscape. 



W. Pollen Bishop, R.B.A., who came to Adelaide on a visit four years 

 ago, has quite fallen under the peculiar spell of the Australian Bush, 

 which he paints with remarkable truth and fidelity. By his lectures and 

 personal influence he has done much to further the cause of art. He is 

 represented in the South Australian Gallery, Liverpool, Cardiff, and 

 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 



John A. T. Shirlow is a Victorian by birth, and became the leader of 

 a group of Victorian artists who were prompted to take up etching 

 after the purchase of the Whistler prints for the Melbourne National 

 Art Gallery. In 1904 he issued from a press of his own construction 

 the first portfolio of etchings published in Australia, and a copy was 

 purchased by the authorities of the British Museum. He is an expert 

 craftsman and the finest etcher in Australia. He was appointed Assis- 

 tant Examiner in Art to the Melbourne University in 1913. 

 A. Colquhoun (p. 64), a Victorian who has devoted his life to land- 

 scape and portrait painting, is well to the fore in building up art in the 

 Colonies. He has just finished, to the order of the Commonwealth 



