Frederick McCubbin's UniverseEucalyptus undergrowth, Australian light and stories of colonial life make Frederick McCubbin a founding figure of Australian Impressionism.
1855 - 1917Artist's life
Melbourne, Box Hill, Mentone, Heidelberg and Mount MacedonMain homes
Oil, landscape, outdoors, narrative painting, portrait, drawing, notebook and teachingPractical
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1855 -1917 · Australian Impressionism, Heidelberg School and Bush Stories
Eucalyptus undergrowth, Australian light and stories of colonial life make Frederick McCubbin a founding figure of Australian Impressionism.
Frederick McCubbin was born in Melbourne in 1855, during the gold rush. The son of a baker, he worked in the family business while attending the Artisan's School of Design, then entered the National Gallery School in 1877. He studied with Eugene von Guérard and George Folingsby, alongside Tom Roberts. When Roberts returned from Europe in 1885, the two artists organized outdoor painting excursions to Box Hill, Mentone then Heidelberg. With Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, Jane Sutherland and Clara Southern, they sought a way adapted to light, colors and Australian spaces. McCubbin, however, retained a strong narrative ambition. His large compositions place characters in a dense bush where recent history, work, loss and memory can be read across the landscape. Burial in the bush, painted in 1890, brings together a small group around an isolated tomb. The eucalyptus trees, the clear earth and the silence give the rite a collective gravity. This type of image also contributes to the colonial and nationalist stories of his time; today it must be considered carefully for what it shows about settler society as well as for the indigenous presences and stories it leaves off-camera. In 1888, McCubbin became a master of the National Gallery's School of Design and trained several artists important. He frequently used his family as a model and continued portraits, landscapes and domestic scenes. His only trip to Europe, in 1907, exposed him directly to the Impressionists and released his late, clearer and more fragmented touch. He died in Melbourne in 1917, after helping to define a specifically Australian modern painting. The "Frederick McCubbin" selection notably compares Burial in the Bush. His reading favors figures.
McCubbin makes the bush a space of memory: light, trees and figures together tell the story of the colonial experience, its myths and its silences.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Melbourne, Bakery and National Gallery School
Family work, drawing and academic teaching prepare for a still local career. This milestone sheds light on the "Frederick McCubbin" collection by favoring figures.
Outdoors, Heidelberg and great stories of the bush
Roberts, artist camps and narrative painting define a new image of the Australian landscape.
European travel and late touch
Impressionism seen directly, light colors and liberated style renew its latest landscapes.
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Bush
Eucalyptus, branches and brush envelop the figures and give the place a psychological density. This trait guides a figure-centered reading of "Frederick McCubbin".
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Story
Gestures, objects and distance transform the landscape into a scene of work, loss or family memory.
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Light
Golden tones, gray greens and light flashes seek a pictorial equivalence of the Australian atmosphere.
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Proofreading
Pioneering myths are examined today with their exclusions, notably indigenous stories absent from the image.
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Six readings specific to Frederick McCubbin
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Colonial memory01
Burial in the bush
The small group, the tomb and the eucalyptus trees make the landscape a place of mourning, community and memory.
Landmark work by Frederick McCubbin. Reading of "Frederick McCubbin" through the figures.Style02
Bush
Eucalyptus, branches and brush envelop the figures and give the place a psychological density. This trait guides a figure-centered reading of "Frederick McCubbin".
Reading key for Frederick McCubbinStyle03
Story
Gestures, objects and distance transform the landscape into a scene of work, loss or family memory.
Reading key for Frederick McCubbinStyle04
Light
Golden tones, gray greens and light flashes seek a pictorial equivalence of the Australian atmosphere.
Reading key for Frederick McCubbinStyle05
Proofreading
Pioneering myths are examined today with their exclusions, notably indigenous stories absent from the image.
Reading key for Frederick McCubbin1855 - 188506
Melbourne, Bakery and National Gallery School
Family work, drawing and academic teaching prepare for a still local career. This milestone sheds light on the "Frederick McCubbin" collection by favoring figures.
Historical landmark of Frederick McCubbin
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