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Conrad Martens

Conrad Martens in Queensland by J.G. Steele & A few Thoughts and Paintings by Ted Andrew

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June 1979, no. 11
Gary Catalano reviews 'Conrad Martens in Queensland: The Frontier Travels of a Colonial Artist' by J.G. Steele and 'A few Thoughts and Paintings' by Ted Andrew


I don’t quite know what to make of J.G. Steele’s dull, parochial catalogue of sketches and watercolours by Conrad Martens. The ‘frontier travels’ of one of our better colonial artists should, you expect, make interesting copy – especially when the artist in question happened to be prolific and the area of his travels the sparsely settled pastoral area of what is now South-eastern Queensland.

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