ARTHUR STREETON 1867-1943

Oil on canvas Signed lower right; inscribed 'Coogee'lower left and lower right; dated 90 and 1890 lower left

Provenance Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, Melbourne, by 1907; until The Baldwin Spencer Collection of Australian Pictures and Works of Art, Fine Art Society Galleries, Melbourne, 19 May 1919, lot 35; purchased by Mr George Kettlewell Mr and Mrs Charles and Emily Ruwolt, Mulwala, New South Wales; until The Charles Ruwolt Collection of Australian Paintings, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 17 November 1966, lot 13, as 'Coogee', illustrated; purchased by Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited; transferred to Elders IXL in 1985 Portrait of Australia Collection,Foster's Group Limited Exhibited Spring Exhibition, Art Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 September 1890, cat. 169, £30.0.0 Pictures of Fd. McCubbin, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts, Gemmell, Tuckett & Co., Melbourne, 5 December 1890, cat. 12 as 'Holiday at Coogee' Pictures by Arthur Streeton Prior to his Return to Europe, Hibernian Hall, Melbourne, 20 April 1907, cat. 71 Sir W. Baldwin Spencer's Collection, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, December 1916, cat. 24 as 'Coogee' Sir Arthur Streeton Exhibition, Adelaide Festival of Arts, John Martin & Co., Adelaide, 6-23 March 1968, cat. 68 Exhibition of Past Australian Painters Lent from Private South Australian Collections, Adelaide Festival of Arts, John Martins & Co., Adelaide, 8-29 March 1974, cat. 101 (label on the reverse) Elders IXL Collection: Masterworks of Australian Painting and French Barbizon School, Colonial, Contemporary, Continental, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2 March - 1 April 1984, cat. 36, illus. Portrait of Australia: The Elders IXL Collection, national tour, 1985-1988, cat. 28, illus. Arthur Streeton 1867-1943, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and tour to Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, 8 December 1995 - 3 November 1996, cat. 26, illus. Great Australian Paintings from Melboune Private Collections, a fund-raising exhibition for Brainwave: Royal Children's Hospital Neurology Unit, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 May - 15 June 1997 Reference Streeton letter to Roberts with sketch of composition, Summer Hill, Sydney, [begun 30 June 1890], Tom Roberts Papers, Mitchell Library, Sydney, in Ann Galbally and Anne Gray (eds), Letters from Smike: The Letters of Arthur Streeton 1890-1943, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1989, p. 19 The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 1890, p. 6 Illustrated Sydney News, 27 September 1890, p. 19; 1 August 1891, p. 6 Centennial Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2, September 1890, p. 99 Table Talk, 28 November 1890, p. 5 The Age, 18 November 1966, p. 6 Australasian Antique Collector, February - May 1967, p. 37, illus. Ursula Hoff, 'Arthur Streeton at Coogee',Art and Australia, June 1967, p. 388, illus. Ann Galbally, Arthur Streeton, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1969, no. 38 Ron Radford, Elders IXL Collection: Masterworks of Australian Painting and French Barbizon School, Colonial, Contemporary, Continental, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1984, p. 26, cat. 36, illus. The Australian, 7 March 1984 Ron Radford, Pamela Luhrs et al., Portrait of Australia, Elders IXL Collection, Elders IXL, Melbourne, 1986, pp. 42-43, illus. pl. 28 Helen Topliss, The Artists' Camps: 'Plein Air' Painting in Australia, Hedley Australia, Melbourne, 1992, pl. 190 Christopher Wray, Arthur Streeton: Painter of Light, Jacaranda Wiley, Milton, Qld, 1993, p. 55 Mary Eagle, The Oil Paintings of Arthur Streeton in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1994, pp. 20, 66, 104 Geoffrey Smith, Arthur Streeton 1867-1943, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1995,pp. 70-71, illus. Geoffrey Smith and Oliver Streeton,Arthur Streeton and the Australian Coast, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Vic., 2004, pp. 13-14 Sir Arthur Streeton is argua