Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed
National Gallery of Victoria, $49.95, 302 pp
Art
Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed edited by Ruth Pullin
by Mary Eagle •
This is the second major retrospective of the art of Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901). In 1980 he was seen as Nature-inspired, like the German Romantics and the Humboldtian visionaries Frederick Church and Thomas Moran (American painters of von Guérard’s own generation). This time, the viewpoint is science.
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