Landscape with Acacias 1974

  

oil on canvas 193.0 x 244.0 cm

    
      In the 1970s, Williams began his professional involvement with the Australian National Gallery. His elevation to public office and the responsibilities which went with this position put a strain on his painting time, as well as on his sense of self - Williams was fundamentally a private man and the hype of the art world, of which he was now an organiser and prime motivator (and in which he had achieved a standing of some significance), was not something with which he felt naturally comfortable.    
             

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