The schoolyard
(1960-1961)
- Medium
- casein and oil on composition board
- Measurements
- 58.7 × 89.5 cm
- Accession Number
- 2012.189
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Professor Charles Green in memory of his father Douglas Green through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2012
© Courtesy of the artist’s estate
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Between 1957 and 1965, National Gallery School alumnus Douglas Green worked part-time as a high school art teacher at Bonbeach High near Frankston. The schoolyard is based on sketches he made during this time and depicts a queue of schoolboys drinking bottles of milk likely provided by the state government’s free milk program of the 1950s. A study of childhood and school life, the painting also reveals Green’s interest in geometry and composition. Angular, fragmented forms in muted tones are used to articulate the scene; the surfaces of the schoolyard, buildings and uniformed figures vibrating against each other.
- Subjects (general)
- Daily Life Human Figures Philosophy, Scholarship, Learning and Teaching
- Subjects (specific)
- Bonbeach (inhabited place) drinking school uniforms schoolchildren (age group) schools (buildings) schools (institutions) students Victoria (state)