Yarra Valley Towards Warburton

Title: Yarra Valley Towards Warburton
Artist: Ernest Buckmaster
Year Made: 1963
Provenance: Ernest Buckmaster was a popular and skilled painter of pastoral landscapes, flowers and realist portraits. He studied under Bernard Hall and W.B.McInnes at the National Gallery of Victoria School where he developed a painting technique strongly influenced by the work of Arthur Streeton. Buckmaster's pre-war carrer flourished. He won the Archibald Prize in 1932 and this created a great demand for his services. In 1936 he was commissioned to paint eleven portraits in Perth alone. By the end of the war Buckmaster was an established and successful painter particularly in Victoria, South Australia and New Zealand. The post-war ascendency of modern painting saw the work of Buckmaster and his contemporaries fall out of favour. Today, however, his work still has wide appeal and Buckmaster's paintings are highly sought by collectors of Australian landscape painting.