Windsor Landscape was painted in 1929, the same year Elioth Gruner was awarded the Wynne Prize for landscape, one of six wins bestowed between 1919 and 1937. Influenced in his early years by the precursor of the French Impressionist movement, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Australian tonalist Max Meldrum and watercolorist J.J. Hilder, Elioth Gruner developed an abiding fascination in exploring the v…

Provenance

Macquarie Galleries, Sydney; Mr Norman Pope, acquired from the above in 1929; Mr and Mrs Saul Symonds, Sydney, by 1940; Commercial Banking Company, Sydney; The National Australia Bank Art Collection, acquired from the above in 1982 (label attached verso); Deutscher and Hackett, The National Australia Bank Art Collection, Melbourne, 22 February 2022, lot 18; Private collection, Sydney

Exhibitions

Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition, Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 4 October 1929, cat. 102; Loan Exhibition of the Works of Elioth Gruner, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 December 1932 – 21 February 1933, no. 62; Elioth Gruner Memorial Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 April – 31 May 1940, cat. 41 (label attached verso)