All on a Summer’s Day

Details

Artist

Charles Conder

Title

All on a Summer’s Day

Year

1888

Medium

oil on board

Size

51 x 30.5 cm

Details

signed and datyed lower left: April 1888
inscribed lower right: All On A Summer's Day

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Acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Provenance

Dr Douglas Stewart purchased from the "9 x 5 Impressions Exhibition" in 1889
Adele Conroy
Neville Randolf Conroy

Exhibited

''Impressions Exhibition'', 17 August 1889, cat. no. 54
''Selected Australian Works of Art'', Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 1982

Literature

''Table Talk'', 30 August 1889
Gibson, F., ''Charles Conder: His Life and Works'', p.93
''Art In Australia'', May 1964, pp. 31, 35
Hoff, U., ''Charles Conder'', cat. no. 24, pp.21-2

Further Information

Charles Conder and Tom Roberts worked together at Coogee during Easter, April 1888. "At this time, 'All On A Summer's Day' was painted. It's Nerliesque Umbrella is it's dominant motif. Trees and foreground grass are written down in a way reminiscent of Julian Ashton though much looser, and the tiny figure of an artist with umbrella and easel amusingly crowning the crest of the dune, should, one feels, be a reference to Tom Roberts." Charles Conder by Ursula Hoff