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Tamarama Beach, forty years ago, a summer morning 1899

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Julian Ashton
Contributed By
Art Gallery of New South Wales
[Accession No: 6535]
(oil on canvas, 99 x 59.7cm, Purchased 1938)

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Ashton, Julian

Successful artist who founded of the Julian Ashton Art School and trained many of Sydney's artists.

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Tamarama

Marked with the rock carvings and middens of its traditional owners, Tamarama became the site of pleasure gardens and amusements in the early twentieth century.

Swimming

Women

Painting

Beach Culture

Visual Arts

Tamarama

South-eastern beachside suburb, with an Aboriginal name believed to mean 'storm'. Its beach has been described as the most hazardous patrolled beach in New South Wales.

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Tamarama beach, forty years ago, a summer morning

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Romantic depiction of Tamarama Beach painted by Julian Rossi Ashton in 1899. Owned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Ashton, Julian

Artist and teacher who trained many Sydney artists.

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