Fred Williams: The Later Landscapes, 1975

8 Apr - 14 May 2005

artist profile

press release

SELECTED ARTICLES
Sebastian Smee. "Splendid Isolation."
Weekend Austrailian. 8 - 9 January 2005, R15.
full article, PDF

PUBLICATION

Fred Williams: The Later Landscapes, 1975 - 1981

The first West Coast exhibition of Fred Williams' paintings of the Australian landscape.

A 60 page, full-color catalogue, with an essay by Patrick McCaughey, is published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Patrick McCaughey has been the Director of three major art museums: the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1981 - 1987); the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn (1988 - 1996); The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1996 - 2001). He produced the first comprehensive monograph on Fred Williams in 1980, subsequently reprinted three times. In 2003 he published an Australian memoir, The Bright Shapes and the True Names (Text, Melbourne). He lives and works as a writer in New Haven, Connecticut.

Fred Williams The Later Landscapes catalog

L.A. Louver is pleased to announce the first West Coast exhibition of landscape paintings by Fred Williams (1927-1982), one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists.

Fred Williams: The Later Landscapes 1975-1981 presents a selection of the artist’s finest paintings from the height of his career, which were made during the six years that preceded his premature death at age 55 in 1982. All the work included in the exhibition have been selected from the estate of Fred Williams. While the majority of the paintings have been previously loaned to museum exhibitions by the estate, many canvases are shown here for the first time.