THE END OF THE WAY

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art shares an emotive painting from 1906 by artist Helen Peters, which captures the essence of the famous bush poem The Wallaby Track by Will H. Ogilvie

By RUTH LOVELL, GALLERY MANAGER

This large-scale painting dated 1906 by Australian female artist Helen Peters relates to the 1871 poem reproduced below. Helen Peters was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1866 and studied art under Edmund Sasse, Bernard Hall, Tudor St George Tucker and Emanuel Phillips Fox. She exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society and the Yarra Sculptors’ Society and was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. She was a respected art teacher and continued to exhibit her work, including at the Royal Academy, London, in 1911 and a retrospective at Geelong in 1903, where Frederick McCubbin congratulated her on her industry and standing. (McCubbin painted similar grand narrative subjects, including On The Wallaby Track in 1896). Helen Peters’ paintings tended towards portraits and sentimental figure groups. This painting,…

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