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Airlie Beach, Queensland: Airlie Beach is a coastal locality and resort town in the Whitsunday Region of Queensland, Australia. Airlie Beach is one of many departure points for the Great Barrier Reef. Cruise ships visit the area, anchoring offshore while passengers are transported via ship's tender to the marina. Near latitude 20 degrees south, Airlie Beach, Proserpine and the nearby Whitsunday Islands enjoy a tropical climate and lifestyle. Wikipedia

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On the Cap

Artist: John Duncan Fergusson (Scottish, 1874-1961)

Date: 1920's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Description

John Duncan Fergusson was a leading 'Scottish colourist', along with Samuel Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell and George Leslie Hunter. Self-taught, and at the vanguard of British artists who absorbed new developments in French painting, Fergusson transformed his style while living in Paris in the early 20th century. The French Fauvist artists, including Henri Matisse, were particularly influential on Fergusson. He became increasingly experimental, adopting simplified outlines and pulsating brushwork to accentuate the bold colours in his painting.

'On the Cap' was painted after a trip to the French Rivera, a place of pleasure and pilgrimage for artists and tourists by the early 1920s. Evoking the glamour of the resort towns and the sparkling heat of the Mediterranean summer, Fergusson paints a vibrant landscape cradling the streamlined forms of the women. The picnicking pair sit frozen before the expansive view like a snapshot told through shimmering colour.