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The pool
(1909)
- Medium
- watercolour
- Measurements
- (28.6 × 24.5 cm) (image) 31.0 × 26.2 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- New South Wales
- Inscription
- inscribed in black charcoal l.r. : J J Hilder.
- Accession Number
- 2010.498
- Department
- Australian Prints & Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Ralph Ward-Ambler AM and Barbara Ward-Ambler through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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J. J. Hilder’s landscape watercolours were simply composed and highly prized for their subjective vision and sophisticated colour harmonies. Hilder’s handling of broad washes on textured papers and atmospheric effects of light, haze and mist proved so influential on other watercolourists (amateurs in particular) that in the 1920s George Lambert scathingly described such work as belonging to the ‘blotting-paper school.’ Hilder’s work sold very well during his lifetime and his influence was reinforced by a tribute exhibition held in 1916 and the publication of a major monograph on his work in the same year.
