The Two white gums, Ambleside

Hans Heysen
Australia
8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968

The Two white gums, Ambleside
1944
watercolour
Place made
Hahndorf, South Australia
Medium
watercolour
Dimensions
40.0 x 32.5 cm
67.0 x 54.2 x 4.0 cm (frame)
Credit line
Sir Malcolm Barclay Harvey Bequest 1970
Accession number
709P19
Signature and date
Signed and dated lr. "Hans Heysen 1944" (?)
Media category
Watercolour
Collection area
Australian paintings
Copyright
© Chris Heysen

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

     

    In this fresh, sparkling watercolour Heysen has returned to the composition of one of his major works of 1913, Morning Light, altering it slightly.  For approximately the last thirty years of his life Heysen re-worked many of his previous subjects and received many commissions.  Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey who was Governor of South Australia from 1939 to 1944, probably commissioned this work.

     

    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] Hylton, Jane, Neylon, John. Hans Heysen Into the light.
  • [Catalogue] Emmett, Peter, ed. 2009. Harvest : an exhibition about plants and place names from South Australian Collections. Adelaide: Botanic Gardens of Adelaide.