Legs of Lamb 1968

  

oil on canvas 71.5 x 71.5 cm

    
      Here a very different choice of subject for Williams - sides of meat hanging from hooks. Yet he employs his characteristically vigorous handling of paint to the two legs of lamb, isolating this subject against a flat brown background, so the effect is both realist and abstract. It is interesting to note that this sculpturally modelled still life was painted at the same time that Williams was perfecting the minute and erratic 'handwritten' touches that characterise the Lysterfield and Australian Landscape series.    
             

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