On the wallaby track

On the wallaby track
On the wallaby track
Artist Frederick McCubbin
Year 1896
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 122.0 cm × 223.5 cm (48.0 in × 88.0 in)
Location Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

On the wallaby track is a 1896 painting by the Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. The painting depicts a itinerant family; a woman with her child on her lap and a man boiling a billy for tea. The painting's name comes from the colloquial Australian term "On the wallaby track" used to describe itinerant rural workers or "swagmen" moving from place to place for work.[1] The work has been described as "among the best known and most popularly admired of Australian paintings".[1]

McCubbin painted the work near his residence in Brighton, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. He used his family as models—his wife Annie for the woman and his young son John for the baby. Michael Moriaty, Annie's younger brother was the model for the man.[2]

The painting is popularly known in Australia for its use in an advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars.[3]

The painting is now part of the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "On the wallaby track". Art Gallery of New South Wales. http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/572+on-the-wallaby-track. Retrieved 19 April 2011. 
  2. ^ "On the wallaby track". Artist's Footsteps. Countrytowns Productions Pty Ltd. http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/McCubbin_wallaby.htm. Retrieved 19 April 2011. 
  3. ^ "Contemporary views". Australian Impressionism. National Gallery of Victoria. http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/insights_cviews.html. Retrieved 19 April 2011. 

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