Fred Williams: 1927-1982

Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams OBE (23 January 1927 – 22 April 1982) was an Australian painterand printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than seventy solo exhibitions during his career in Australian galleries, as well as the exhibition Fred Williams – Landscapes of a Continent at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977.

This scholarly and highly illustrated study of Fred Williams was originally published in 1980, and was the first comprehensive and fully researched attempt to inform a wider public of the significance of Williams’ work. The author traces the artist’s career from his student days through his years of mature achievement to the flowering of his art in the last years of his life. Revised edition. pp.373 #110515/0619 (Prev owner’s gift inscription on front blank.)