Wednesday, November 25, 2020

McCubbin's lost masterpiece found

Obscured from onlookers by layers of vibrant green and brown brushstrokes, Found, which depicts a life-size bushman holding a small child, was previously known solely through a small black-and-white photograph included in the artist’s scrapbook. Michael Varcoe-Cocks, the gallery’s head of conservation, rediscovered the lost masterpiece after noticing the shadow of an odd shape on Frederick McCubbin's The Pioneer’s surface. Source: Smithsonian

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