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Continental Shift

Landmark partnership between WA and the US.
19th-century landscapes by Australian and American artists re-examined.

An exciting partnership between the Art Gallery of WA, Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art and the University of Western Australia sees fifteen American landscape paintings shown in the context of their Australian counterparts.

Continents apart, yet influenced by the same global artistic trends, this exhibition highlights the cross-pollination of ideas and influences, exploring the referential artistic practices intrinsic to the development of art movements across the centuries.

Accompanied by an undergraduate course at the University of Western Australia and symposium at AGWA, this display strikes up new conversations between the US and Australia, and takes the longstanding partnership between UWA and AGWA in a new and exciting direction.

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  • 30 July 2016 – 5 February 2017
  • FREE

curated by

Melissa Harpley
Historical and Modern Art

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Exhibition Highlights

Thomas Doughty In the Adirondacks
c1822-c1830. Oil on canvas, 61 x 76.2 cm (image) 76.8 x 92.4 cm (frame). Terra Foundation for American Art, Gift of Laurence and Ronnie Robbins. 2002.1. Photography © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.

Worthington Whittredge Indian Encampment 1870-1876. Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 55.6 cm (image) 60 x 78.1 cm (frame). Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection 1999.151. Photography © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago.

James Haughton Forrest Settler
Hut, Eagle Hawk Neck, Tasmania c1890. Oil on board, 42 x 54.6 cm. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased with funds from the Great Australian Paintings Appeal with funds presented by G J Coles & Co Ltd, 1980.

Exhibition Highlights

This exhibition is a collaboration between the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the University of Western Australia and the Terra Foundation for American Art, which is also recognised for its generous support.

Kedela wer kalyakoorl ngalak Wadjak boodjak yaak.

Today and always, we stand on the traditional land of the Whadjuk Noongar people.