Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide
1890
Arthur Streeton captured the hazy, golden heat of the Australian bush in this sweeping 1890 landscape, signed 'Heidelberg' right in the corner. It is a prime example of the Heidelberg School, Australia's own flavor of Impressionism that focused on capturing the unique, blinding light of the outback rather than traditional European scenes. The winding river and grazing cattle evoke a sense of peaceful, timeless isolation, perfectly matching its poetic title borrowed from a William Wordsworth poem about the River Duddon. You can almost feel the dry grass and hear the cicadas buzzing in the distance!
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
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