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Sketches

Conrad Martens in Queensland by J.G. Steele & A few Thoughts and Paintings by Ted Andrew

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June 1979, no. 11


I don’t quite know what to make of J.G. Steele’s dull, parochial catalogue of sketches and watercolours by Conrad Martens. The ‘frontier travels’ of one of our better colonial artists should, you expect, make interesting copy – especially when the artist in question happened to be prolific and the area of his travels the sparsely settled pastoral area of what is now South-eastern Queensland.

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