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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Citations

  • Kerr, Joan, '[Joan Kerr’s Archive]’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, (postcard).

  • Hart, Deborah (2011), 'Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons’.

  • Mollison, James (1968), 'Fred Williams Etchings’.

  • McCaughey, Patrick (1987), 'Fred Williams 1927-1982’.

  • Grant, Kirsty (National Gallery of Victoria) (1995), 'Fred Williams: A working method’, Imprint 30/4 (summer 1995), pp 25-26.

  • Mollison, James (1987), 'Fred Williams : a souvenir book of the artist’s work in the Australian National Gallery’, Canberra, ACT : Australian National Gallery.

  • Kerr, Joan, '[Joan Kerr’s Archive]’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, (postcard).

See also

  • '?IMAGE: 'Little Man Juggling' 1954-56, etching, aquatint, engraving, drypoint, foul biting, ink, artist's proof B 15.4 x 17.2 cm (plate), NGV, presented through Art Foundation of Victoria by Mrs Lynn Williams, Founder Benefactor, 1992.'.
  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists

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  • The Australian Landscape (exhibited at)
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  • Tribute to Fred Williams (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: the Pilbara series 1979-1981 (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams gouaches (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: painter/etcher (exhibited at)
  • The enduring landscape: gouaches by Fred Williams (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a working method (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: Bass Strait landscapes 1971-1978 (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a retrospective (works on paper component) (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams' Pilbara: the Rio Tinto Pilbara series (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: the Pilbara series (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams etchings, 1970-76 and the Guthega paintings (exhibited at)
  • John Peart / Fred Williams (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams watercolours (exhibited at)
  • Paintings 1963-1977 (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: drawing the exotic (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: drawing the nude (exhibited at)
  • Heroic landscape: Williams and Streeton (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: recent paintings: a current working exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: the Pilbara series (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: paintings, gouches and lithographs 1976-1978 (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Painting (exhibited at)
  • Crouch Prize (exhibited at)
  • The Australian Landscape (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams & John Brack in Adelaide (exhibited at)
  • Tribute to Fred Williams (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: the Pilbara series 1979-1981 (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams gouaches (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: painter/etcher (exhibited at)
  • The enduring landscape: gouaches by Fred Williams (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a working method (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: Bass Strait landscapes 1971-1978 (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a retrospective (works on paper component) (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: a retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams' Pilbara: the Rio Tinto Pilbara series (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: the Pilbara series (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams etchings, 1970-76 and the Guthega paintings (exhibited at)
  • John Peart / Fred Williams (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams watercolours (exhibited at)
  • Paintings 1963-1977 (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: drawing the exotic (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: drawing the nude (exhibited at)
  • Heroic landscape: Williams and Streeton (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: recent paintings: a current working exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: the Pilbara series (exhibited at)
  • Fred Williams: paintings, gouches and lithographs 1976-1978 (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Painting (exhibited at)