Arthur Streeton was an Australian landscape artist active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Like the American Impressionists working at the same time, Streeton and other painters in Australia were influenced by the new approach to painting pioneered by the French Impressionists, but took the influence and went their own way, creating unique and individualistic interpretations of the Australian landscape.
Streeton was the core member of a group or artists that gathered to paint a Eaglemont camp in Heidleberg, Victoria, near Melbourne. Streeton also traveled in England and Europe, painting scenes in London and Venice and was an official war artist during WW I.
His paintings are among the most highly regarded in Australian art, and his work, though not well known in general outside Australia, has been influential on a number of artists.
I particularly enjoy his use of uncommon canvas proportions, some of which are dramatically horizontal or vertical.
