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Robert Rooney

Robert Rooney writes frequently on art for Australian magazines and newspapers.

Robert Rooney reviews 'Fred Williams' by Patrick McCaughey

March 1981, no. 28 01 March 1981
Patrick McCaughey’s Fred Williams is a rare event in Australian publishing, a substantial and scholarly monograph on a living Australian artist. Fred Williams, born in 1927, belongs to the so-called ‘heroic years’ of modern Australian painting (1940-65), yet his reputation as ‘Australia’s leading painter’ was made during the decade that followed. Unlike his contemporaries – among the ... (read more)