Fred Williams
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- For other uses, see Fred Williams (disambiguation).
Fred Williams (1927-1982) is an Australian painter, known particularly for his landscapes. He studied at the Gallery School in Melbourne from 1943 to 1947 and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London from 1951 to 1956.
He had more than 70 solo exhibitions during his career throughout Australia's art galleries, as well as the exhibition Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the MoMA in New York in 1977.
Williams won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting twice; in 1966 with Upwey Landscape and in 1976 with Mt. Kosciusko.
His painting Upwey Landscape (1965) sold for $1,987,700 in one of the final auctions of Christie's in Australia in April 2006, which was the second highest price for an Australian work. [1] [2] The previous highest price for one of Williams' paintings was $587,500 for You Yangs Landscape in 1963.
[edit] Bibliography
- Heathcote, Christopher (1995). A Quiet Revolution: The Rise of Australian Art, 1946-1968. Melbourne, Vic: Text Publishing, p267. ISBN 1875847103.
