Princes Bridge

Clarice Beckett ca. 1923

State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia

Princes Bridge is viewed from the south bank across the Yarra River in this painting, with traffic and pedestrians on the bridge , boats moored beyond it, and a misty high horizon with a clock tower in background.

Details

Title: Princes Bridge
Creator: Clarice Beckett , 1887-1935
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Princes Bridge, Melbourne
Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
lithograph: Painting
View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1798478
View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/116203
Physical dimensions: 29.5 x 39.7 cm. (sight), frame 38.0 x 47.0 cm.
Medium: Oil on pulpboard
A.E. Ferris: Clarice Beckett lived and worked modestly, without conventional ambition. This lack of prominence gave her complete freedom in her art. The small, modest views of Melbourne she produced were something of a puzzle to many of her contemporaries, who were more familiar with either the large, lively boulevard pictures of the French Impressionists, or the golden bush landscapes of her fellow Australians. Later viewers have come to understand and appreciate the profound sense of stillness that Beckett captured in her meditative, understated pictures, even when they show the bustle of Melbourne's main thoroughfares.

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