Rickett's Point, Charles Conder (1890)
Charles Edward Conder was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art.
The picture shows Conder skilfully grappling with the artistic challenge he set himself, namely of softening a sharply bisected composition made up of triangles whose apexes all meet at a point beneath the centre right of the picture.
