LEASON, PERCY (1889-1959)

"The Water Cart" (c.1921)
etching, ed. 27/35
7 x 14cm
Signed lower right
*private collection, Sydney
 
Leason was an importrant Australian Modernist. He trained at the National Gallery School & the Victorian Arts Society, under Bernard Hall & Frederick McCubbin. He worked as an illustrator on The Bulletin & Punch, and despite being Australia’s highest paid commercial artist at the time, he chose to study painting with Max Meldrum and adopt his Tonalist ideas. His paintings of Australian landscapes & portraits of Victorian Aborigines were exhibited widely, and many were purchased by National Galleries & Institutions for their private collections.