ELIOTH GRUNER Australian, 1882-1939

Gift of the artist to Senator R. D. Elliot (1884-1950)

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

Private collection, Perth

[Gruner works from the collection of R. D. Elliot], Bendigo Art Gallery, September - December 1920, no catalogue number, as 'Colour note (with cows)'

This exquisite 'colour note' relates closely to Gruner's larger After the Rain, 1917, also formerly in the possession of Robert Charles Dunlop Elliot (known as 'R. D.'), businessman, newspaper proprietor and a major collector of the artist's work.¹ Elliott was a long-serving trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria. He was married to Hilda, daughter of Theodore Fink, and their collection included works by Degas, Frank Brangwyn and William Orpen.

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.

1. See Herbert, H., 'The Art Collection of Senator R. D. Elliott', Art in Australia, 3rd series, no. 58, February 1935, p. 32, illus; and Elioth Gruner: Twenty-five Reproductions in Colour from Original Oil Paintings, foreword by Norman Lindsay, Shepherd Press, Sydney, 1947, pl. 3 as 'Morning Light'.