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Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts (National Gallery of Australia)

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08 December 2015
Tom Roberts (National Gallery of Australia)

The National Gallery of Australia's summer exhibition, opened by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 2 December, is devoted to one of Australia's finest and most popular artists, Tom Roberts. This major retrospective, under the curatorship of the NGA's Anne Gray, brings together all the major paintings, many of them ...

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Tom Roberts by Humphrey McQueen

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May 1996, no. 180
Peter Pierce reviews 'Tom Roberts' by Humphrey McQueen

Almost at the end of his very long biography, Tom Roberts, Humphrey McQueen wonders why – if Australian landscape painting had so much need of a father – ‘no-one thought to install Margaret Preston as the mother’ of the genre? He has a suggestive answer to a question which needed to be posed:

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