ELIOTH GRUNER Australian, 1882-1939

Robert A. McKillop, Canberra, in the 1940s

Collection of William Grant Buckle (1894-1947), Sydney; thence by descent

Private collection, Perth

Gruner received his first Wynne Prize for landscape painting from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1916, his first of seven. From the mid 1920s, after visiting Europe, he travelled extensively in search of landscape subject matter. From 1927 he spent quite long periods out of Sydney, staying with friends or camping in the bush. The Monaro district, gateway to the Australian Alps and centred on Cooma, was first settled by graziers in the early nineteenth century. Here in Monaro Landscape Gruner captures the cool, fresh air of the Monaro Valley and the Snowy Mountains in summer.

We are most grateful for assistance in cataloguing this work from Steven Miller, Librarian at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, who is compiling a catalogue raisonné of Gruner's paintings.