Fred Williams b. 23 January 1927

Also known as Frederick Ronald Williams
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Fred Williams' paintings of the Australian landscape can be seen as a modernist reinterpretation of the Heidelberg tradition. He was a figurative artist who valued abstract qualities, a maker of figures as well as landscape. Williams was also a printmaker who made almost 300 etchings.
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exhibited at
Heroic landscape: Williams and Streeton
Date
1970
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Heroic landscape: Williams [and] Streeton. [Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1970]
12 p : ill (some col) ; 26 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Painting
exhibited at
Recent Australian Painting
Date
June 1961 - July 1961
Place
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Herald outdoor art show 1959
Date
6 March 1959 - 14 March 1959
Place
Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Herald outdoor art show 1953
Date
12 December 1953 - 20 December 1953
Place
Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
Description

Originally scheduled for 8-13 December 1953 but delayed by summer storms.

Type
Exhibition
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Related collections
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • British Museum (collected in)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (collected in)
  • Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Castlemaine Art Museum (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery (collected in)
  • British Museum (collected in)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (collected in)
  • Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)