Towards Abstraction

Collection
Ongoing
Wooden board painted yellow with squares and rectangular shapes overlayed on top

Rosalie Gascoigne, Fool's gold, 1992, purchased 1995 © Rosalie Gascoigne/Copyright Agency

About

From 19th-century Europe when artists such as Monet began painting outdoors, capturing a more impressionistic view of the landscape, to Australia’s Rosalie Gascoigne and her deeply personal works informed by her natural environment, Towards Abstraction is inspired by the landscape and humans’ impact upon it.

See works by some of the most celebrated artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Fred Williams, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollock and Rosalie Gascoigne.