The pack of strange dogs
2018
- Medium
- oil on plywood
- Measurements
- 81.2 × 122.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.l.: GRANT NIMMO 2018 / THE PACK OF STRANGE DOGS.
- Accession Number
- 2018.1329
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2018
© Grant Nimmo - Gallery location
- Members' Lounge
Level 1, NGV Australia - About this work
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Grant Nimmo’s forest landscapes have a storybook-like quality, portraying the beauty of nature while suggesting darker forces. The pack of strange dogs depicts a pine forest scene, framed by a dark painted border that recalls the Romantic painting tradition of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Nimmo produced this work after a visit to the Scottish Highlands; the painting is a response to the atmosphere he experienced there. The title references a line from a Scottish folk song that describes, from a hare’s point of view, the thrill of being chased through the landscape by hunting dogs.
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- forests (plant communities) green colours trees wooded landscapes
