The stories behind seven Australian paintings

As custodian of the Australian collection of the Art Gallery of NSW, Barry Pearce had a ‘professional love affair with paintings I never tired of looking at, day after day, year in year out’. Here, he picks seven works from his book 100 Moments in Australian Painting that offer more than a broad-brushstrokes view of his country
This arresting, compact image of a waterfall just north of the city of Melbourne is a reminder of the potent European obsession with nature among artists of the mid-1