Clarice Beckett - Bay Road
Clarice Beckett
Australia 1887-1935
Bay Road 1930
Naarm/Melbourne
oil on canvas on cardboard
Purchased 1971 1971.196
Bay Road, a main thoroughfare in Naarm/Melbourne's south-east, was a source of inspiration throughout Beckett's career. To produce this work, she positioned herself at the beginning of a slight incline in the road, capturing both the still profile of a waiting commuter and the hurried movement of a horse and carriage.
In her only known artist statement from 1924, Beckett said her aim as an artist was... to show the charm of light and shade, which I try to give forth in correct tones so as to give as nearly as possible an exact illusion of reality. Toward the end of her life this had evolved into a changeable painting style, in which she moved freely between misty imagery and arrangements of high key colour and strong tonal contrast.
Clarice Beckett - Bay Road
Clarice Beckett
Australia 1887-1935
Bay Road 1930
Naarm/Melbourne
oil on canvas on cardboard
Purchased 1971 1971.196
Bay Road, a main thoroughfare in Naarm/Melbourne's south-east, was a source of inspiration throughout Beckett's career. To produce this work, she positioned herself at the beginning of a slight incline in the road, capturing both the still profile of a waiting commuter and the hurried movement of a horse and carriage.
In her only known artist statement from 1924, Beckett said her aim as an artist was... to show the charm of light and shade, which I try to give forth in correct tones so as to give as nearly as possible an exact illusion of reality. Toward the end of her life this had evolved into a changeable painting style, in which she moved freely between misty imagery and arrangements of high key colour and strong tonal contrast.