Townshend has captured the rural scene at Kurrajong, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.
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"Kurrajong Landscape"
G K Townshend
42 Delmar Pde Dee Why.
25 GNS.
Excellent condition. No foxing or other damage. Presently in a vintage carved timber frame (no glass).
(We will post without the frame. Pickups are welcome to have the frame for free.)
Picture visible inside mat border 43cm x 35cm
External frame 56cm x 67cm
See calculator at bottom of listing for your postage rate. Rate includes mandatory registration, fragile item packing & handling.
All international mail is via insured airmail only. No exceptions.
Pick up is free & welcome from Five Dock. If you pickup, you can have the carved timber frame, but postage quoted is unframed with just the mounting mat border. It will be posted flat with the green mat board surround.
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TOWNSHEND, Geoffrey Keith (1888-1969)
Birth Place: Auckland, New Zealand
Died: Dee Why, New South Wales, Australia
Lived and worked in Australia from 1911.
Geoffrey Keith Townshend was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He served for three and a half years in World War I and drew cartoons for the trench paper, 'Aussie', but he is probably best known for his work as cartoonist and humorist with the Bulletin.
Townshend was certainly a fine watercolorist. He was vice-president of both the RAS (NSW) and the Australian Watercolour Institute. According to the Bulletin, he spent 'a lot of time in rural parts getting subjects for his water-colour pictures', although he lived in Dee Why and for many years was on the teaching staff of East Sydney Technical College. His painting style was strongly influenced by the watercolours of American artists John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer.
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