Fred Williams (1927 - 1982)

Forest of gum trees, 1965 – 66

etching on paper

35.0 x 27.5 cm (image)
47.0 x 37.5 cm (sheet)
64.5 x 55.5 cm (frame)

signed and numbered below image: 9/35 Fred Williams

Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above

Etchings by Fred Williams, Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney, 1 March – 1 April 1967, cat. 51 (another example)
Fred Williams: Works in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 October – 30 November 1980, cat. 192 (another example)
Fred Williams: A retrospective, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 7 November 1987 – 31 January 1988, cat. 384, and touring nationally (another example)
Some Aspects of the Work of Fred Williams, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 5 August – 2 September 1989, cat. 42 (another example)
Australian Contemporary Art Fair II, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 21 – 24 June 1990 (another example)
Winter Show, Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney, 1998
Australian prints from the Gallery’s collection (1998–1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November 1998 – 7 February 1999, cat. 85 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 101)
Fred Williams: from music hall to landscape, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 August – 25 November 2001, cat. 59 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)

Mollison, J., Fred Williams Etchings, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 1968, cat. 237, pl. 71, pp. 82, 83 (illus., another example), 131 (illus., another example)
Lindsay, R. and Zdanowicz, I., Fred Williams: Works in the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1980, cat. 192, p. 93 (another example)
Mollison, J., Fred Williams: A retrospective, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 384, p. 56 (illus., another example)
Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, p. 120 (illus., another example)
Zdanowicz, I. and Coppel, S., Fred Williams – An Australian Vision, The British Museum Press, London, 2003, cat. 51, fig. 19, pp. 29 (illus., another example), 95 (illus., another example), 124

Forest of gum trees III, oil on canvas, 183.1 x 151.6 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, British Museum, London, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide