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Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek

Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek
Artist	Tom Roberts
Year	1885
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	47.0 cm × 66.0 cm (18.5 in × 26.0 in)
Location	Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek is an 1885 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts.^[1] The painting depicts a man on horseback driving a small group of cattle across a timber trestle bridge over Gardiners Creek, then on the outskirts of Melbourne.

In Roberts’s marvellously designed 1885 view of a bridge over a creek, with its elongated forms created from wooden pillars and their reflections in water, and the inventive positioning of the bridge’s fence, so it becomes a decorative rectangular pattern along the top edge of the painting, Roberts engages in a typical Impressionist subject, and the movement’s interest in unusual visual angles. But he avoids dissolving the subject into a pulverised world of colour effects. The result is a painting much more like Whistler than Monet ...

— Matthew Collings, ^[2]

The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2011 as a gift from the MJM Carter AO collection to celebrate the gallery's 130th anniversary.^[1]

• Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek – Art Gallery of South Australia

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