Artificial landscape 67/5
1967
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 129.6 × 101.8 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint on reverse u.l.: JAMES DOOLIN / 1967 / Los Angeles
inscribed (vertically) in black paint on reverse u.l.: JAMES DOOLIN 1967 Los Angeles 51" x 40 1/8" - Accession Number
- 87-6
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1969
© Lauren Doolin McMillen
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Level 3 foyer
Level 3, NGV International - About this work
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James Doolin was an American artist who, after completing studies at the Philadelphia School of Art, lived and taught in Australia from 1965 to 1967. Doolin was a major exponent of the hardedge style in Australia. The forms in his Artificial landscape paintings draw on urban imagery, referring to street scenes and signs. Through his teaching and friendships, and by providing Australian artists with a firsthand introduction to the hard-edge style, Doolin had a significant influence on artists in both Sydney and Melbourne. Yet his real impact during his short time in Australia was on Robert Jacks, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter and Robert Rooney, who were to embrace colour field, minimal and geometric styles. Artificial landscape 67/5 was one of three works by the artist exhibited in the NGV’s 1968 exhibition The Field, and the only painting from the exhibition to be acquired at the time.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- circles (plane figures) colours (hues or tints) flat (form attributes) geometric abstraction stripes
