Item Item 1 - Landscape painting for Poor Fellow My Country

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UQFL334-Item 1

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Landscape painting for Poor Fellow My Country

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  • 1975 (Creation)

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1 painting : oil on canvas ; 60 x 91 cm.

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(1922-2015)

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Crooke preliminary studies at Swinburne Technical College were interrupted by army service in Western Australia, North Queensland and Borneo. After the war his work included two years on Thursday Island. The portrayal of island life that emerged soon brought his work recognition. In 1969 he won the Archibald Prize with an expressionist study of writer George Johnston. He was responsible for the dust-jacket for Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert -- adapted from The new McCulloch's encyclopaedia of Australian Art

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This oil on canvas is of an Australian bush landscape, featuring an Aboriginal figure holding a spear in the lower left-hand section. It was commissioned by William Collins Publishers for the jacket cover of Xavier Herbert's book Poor Fellow My Country. The painting was presented to Ken Wilder, Managing Director of Collins, when he retired. The painting was donated to Fryer Library in 2001 in memory of Ken and Jean Wilder's son, Christopher.

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In Copyright.

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Parcel 1

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0001

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Created, Linda Justo, 14-Jun-2022.

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  • Parcel: UQFL334 Parcel 1