In 1907 Streeton was in Sydney preparing for an exhibition at the Queen Victoria Markets and took a number of views at different spots around Sydney Harbour 'Sydney's interest is for me all in its surroundings', he wrote to Tom Roberts in July 1907, ' - its fascinating, warm grey sky, and yellow rock and purple sea and long undulating shore lines and luxurious languor of expression; it's semi-east…

Provenance

Sir Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne S. H. Ervin, Sydney D. R. Sheumack, from 1980; Sotheby's, Fine Australian and European Paintings, Melbourne, 25/08/1997, Lot No. 167; Private collection, Sydney

Exhibitions

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1955, cat. 79. S. H. Ervin. Private Collection, Artlovers' Gallery, Sydney 1958, cat. 79. North Shore Festival of Arts Historic. Exhibition of Colonial Sirius Cove Painters, Artlovers' Gallery, Sydney, 1963. The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat. 97.

Literature

The Arthur Streeton Catalogue, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1935, cat. 288 Galbally, A., Arthur Streeton, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne 1979, cat. 124 Christie, R. and Miller, J. (eds), The D. R. Sheumack Collection. Eighty Years of Australian Painting, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 1988, cat. 17