Approaching storm with bushfire haze

Hans Heysen
Australia
8 October 1877 – 2 July 1968

Approaching storm with bushfire haze
1912
oil on canvas
Place made
Hahndorf, South Australia
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.0 x 82.5 cm
89.0 x 110.0 x 11.0 cm (frame)
Credit line
Gift of the artist 1944
Accession number
0.1268
Signature and date
Signed and dated l.l. cnr "Hans Heysen 1912" (?)
Media category
Painting
Collection area
Australian paintings
Copyright
© Chris Heysen

  • WALL LABEL: Hans Heysen: The Creative Journey, 1992

     

    Heysen made this small painting rapidly during a single session in the studio, and so it has the fresh direct paint quality of an oil sketch.  He had intended it to be a study for a larger painting which never eventuated.  It records a dramatic moment Heysen came across during the last week of January 1912, with drovers and sheep fleeing from the many bushfires burning throughout the Adelaide Hills.

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art

    National Gallery of Victoria, 22 March 2019 – 22 July 2019

  • Hans Heysen: The creative journey

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 28 August 1992 – 10 January 1993
    Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery, 19 June 1993 – 1 August 1993
    Newcastle Art Gallery, 15 October 1993 – 28 November 1993
    Art Gallery of Western Australia, 12 December 1993 – 26 January 1994
    Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 17 February 1994 – 27 March 1994
    Moree Plains Art Gallery, 9 April 1994 – 22 May 1994
    Riddoch Art Gallery, 3 June 1994 – 17 July 1994