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Frederick Ronald Williams OBE (23 January 1927 – 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century's major landscapists.
Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams OBE (23 January 1927 – 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape.
- Australian
- January 23, 1927
- Richmond, Victoria, Australia
- April 22, 1982
Fred Williams was a painter and printmaker whose distinctive vision altered the way many Australians envisage the landscape. He approached his subject matter as a stimulus for formal invention and said he strove to depict the underlying bones rather than the surface skin of the Australian continent.
Frederick Ronald Williams (23 January 1927 – 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century's major landscapists.
Fred Williams was a painter and printmaker whose distinctive representation of the Australian landscape had a profound impact on the way the continent came to be envisaged. He studied at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne and the George Bell Art School in the 1940s.
Aug 12, 2011 · Fred Williams is one of Australia’s greatest painters. He created a highly original and distinctive way of seeing the Australian landscape and was passionate about the painting process itself. This is the first major retrospective of Williams’ work in over 25 years.