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What makes the cut in a revisionist look at Australian impressionism?

An intelligent new show respects history - and adds recognition of female and Indigenous artists - while keeping the worst ideological fantasies at bay.

A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas | National Library of Australia

A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas Original drawings and paintings by the artists of A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas from Friday 12 March to Sunday 11 July 2021. Published in supplements between 1886 and 1889, the Atlas set out to document through illustrations, maps and text a settler-colonial view of Australia s history, landscape and ways of life, and did so with the aid of over 800 remarkable steel- and wood-engraved illustrations. It was also a catalyst for the art movement that followed, now known as Australian impressionism. The exhibition showcases the art of three of the Atlas s principal artists – Julian Ashton, A. Henry Fullwood and Frank Mahony – with more than 180 prints, engravings, paintings, drawings, and the tools they used to create them, on show. The works of other

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