The Land of the Oratunga

Hans Heysen
Australia
8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968

The Land of the Oratunga
1932
watercolour on paper
Place made
Hahndorf, South Australia
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
47.3 x 62.6 cm (sight)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1937
Accession number
0.925
Signature and date
Signed and dated, l.l., "HANS HEYSEN. 1932.".
Media category
Watercolour
Collection area
Australian paintings
Copyright
© Chris Heysen

  • WALL LABEL: Hans Heysen: The Creative Journey, 1992

     

    This watercolour was made three years after the oil painting of the same subject on display in this exhibition.  In this watercolour Heysen has depicted the mountain from a closer viewpoint than in the oil painting.  This gives the mountain greater monumentally as it looms over the restless rhythms of the foreground landscape.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art

    National Gallery of Victoria, 22 March 2019 – 22 July 2019
  • [Book] Aland, Jenny, Darby, Max. Art connections.
  • [Book] Bonython, C. Warren. Walking the Flinders Ranges.
  • [Journal] Watercolours and Drawings by Hans Heysen.
  • [Article] Bunbury, Alisa. 2002. The Flinders Ranges: The 'Artist's Country'. (July-December).
  • [Book] Bunbury, Alisa. Arid arcadia : art of the Flinders Ranges.
  • [Journal] Art & Australia.
  • [Book] Hylton, Jane, Neylon, John. Hans Heysen Into the light.
  • [Journal] Art Gallery of South Australia Newsletter.
    Art Gallery of South Australia Newsletter Vol. 6, no. 16 (Sept. 1985)-v. 6, no. 54 (Mar. 1989)
  • [Book] Andrews, Rebecca. Hans Heysen.
  • [Book] Speck, Catherine. Heysen to Heysen: Selected letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen.
  • [Book] Gray, Anne, Radford, Ron, et al. Australia.
  • [Book] McLean, Ian. Rattling Spears: A History of Australian Indigenous Australian Art.
  • [Book] Hesson, Angela. Heysen/Heysen.
    Complimentary copy to come.
  • [Thesis] Body, Ralph. 2019. “Behind the scenes: Hans Heysen's art world networks.” M.A.
  • [Book] Cameron-Smith, Barbara. Hans Heysen Was Here.
  • [Book] Thomas, Nicholas. Possessions.
    Reprint
  • [Catalogue] 2019. Hans and Nora Heysen: Two generations of Australian Art. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria.
  • [Book] Speck, Catherine. Heysen to Heysen: Selected letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen.
    Complimentary copy to come.
  • [Journal] Trailwalker Issue 166.