Frederick McCubbin
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Frederick McCubbin was an Australian artist, art teacher and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
Self-portrait, 1886, Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Pioneer, 1904, National Gallery of Victoria
Frederick McCubbin, 1913-17, by May and Mina Moore, State Library of New South Wales
Bush Idyll, 1893
The Pioneer (painting)
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The Pioneer is a 1904 painting by Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. The painting is a triptych; the three panels tell a story of a free selector and his family making a life in the Australian bush
Frederick McCubbin
…interactions with the bush. Several of these works have become icons of Australian art, including Down on His Luck (1889), On the Wallaby Track (1896) and The Pioneer (1904). During his first and only trip to Europe in 1907, McCubbin gained first-hand exposure to works by J. M. W. Turner and the French impressionists…
Arthur Streeton Near Heidelberg, 1890