Frederick McCubbin – Whisperings in wattle boughs

GEELONG GALLERY, VIC

Geelong Gallery’s celebrates its 125th anniversary year with this exhibition that celebrates the first major work to enter its collection in 1900: Frederick McCubbin’s A bush burial (1890); it is brought into dialogue with other iconic works, including Down on his luck (1889), pictured, in which McCubbin elaborates and redefines the Australian bush and the human subjects within it. geelonggallery.org.au