THEODORE PENLEIGH BOYD (1890–1923)
Across
the Lake
oil on artist’s board
Signed ‘Penleigh Boyd’ and dated illegibly, lower left and also signed ‘Penleigh
Boyd’ to the reverse
18 x 25.5cm
“(Boyd) was a talented landscape painter who worked in a lyrical and atmospheric
manner comparable with the early paintings of Gruner. His early landscapes and
seascapes had great brilliance, particularly in respect to effects of light”.
“Boyd served with the Mines Corps during World War I, was injured at Ypres
and invalided home to Australia. During the immediate post-war years he worked
to re-establish the place won in pre-war times as a leading Australian painter,
renowned for his paintings of wattle and for the lyrical and poetic qualities
that identified most of his early work”.
REFERENCE
Bernard Smith, Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford University Press Australia,
South Melbourne, 1991, page 283
Alan McCulloch, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Hutchinson Group (Australia)
Pty Ltd, Hawthorn, 1984, page 226
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of AustraliaMost State Galleries
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