Horseshoe Range
Guy GREY-SMITH: artist
This major work stands at a point of transition in Grey-Smith’s painting style. His early landscapes had been largely drawn from the local Perth environs, and showed him working through various artistic influences. Travel through the north-west of WA from the mid-1950s onwards literally broadened his horizons, resulting in arresting paintings like this one that distil the essence of the landscape through simplification of form and controlled use of intense colour. The biggest painting he had ever attempted when he started it, its size befits both the subject matter (a striking landform north of Meekatharra) and the scale of the artist’s ambition for the work.
Title
Horseshoe Range
Artist/Maker and role
Guy GREY-SMITH: artist
Date
1958-1961
Medium
oil on muslin over hardboard
Measurements
126.0 x 250.0 cm
Credit line
Purchased 1961
© Susanna Grey-Smith and Mark Grey-Smith
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
1961/00P6