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Painting
oil on canvas
114.6 x 152.4cm stretcher; 141.5 x 179.2 x 12.0cm frame
Purchased 1949
8171
Art Gallery of NSW, Ground Level, Australian Art 19th Century Galleries, Court 9B
Further information
Among Fox's most sumptuous and colourful works, 'The ferry' is regarded as a masterpiece of the artist's maturity revealing a lifelong enchantment with sunshine and bright colour. Arising from Fox's visit to Trouville, a favourite beach resort in the north of France, the painting was based on rapidly painted sketches made out-of-doors, of striped bathing huts, umbrellas and holiday crowds.
When first exhibited in Sydney at the Royal Art Society in 1913, during one of Fox's return visits to Australia, 'The ferry' was an important source of inspiration for younger painters of the time like Roland Wakelin, Grace Cossington Smith and Roy de Maistre - who loved the painting for its broken brushwork and adventurous way of fragmenting and juxtaposing colour.
'The exhibition made a great impression on me ... we'd never seen colour like that here before. That was the thing that struck me most. Fox had been in France and had seen impressionist pictures which were scarcely known here then. Painting had been on the brown side - more tone than colour - this was expression through colour, we'd never seen it before.'
- Roland Wakelin, 1968
Bibliography
Book Catalogue; Art Gallery of New South Wales: highlights from the collection; Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940); 2008, 66-67 (colour illus.)
Periodical; Look; Jill Sykes (Australia); Dec 2006-Jan 2007, 39, 'Oz arts: our painters in the Parsi Salons' by Anne Gérard, pg. 37-39.
Scholarly/Book; Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945; John Slater (England); 2004, 79, 'The city observed to the city experienced', pg. 71-100.
General/Periodical; Museum National; Roslyn Russell (Australia); May 2002, 8 (colour illus.), 'Parallel Visions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales', pg. 8.
Exhibition catalogue; Parallel visions: Works from the Australian collection; Barry Pearce (Australia); 2002, 12, 26, 28, 31 (colour illus.), 143, 147, 'Introduction: Convergent Spirits' by Barry Pearce, pg. 10-19; 'Rupert Bunny / E. Phillips Fox' by Jane Clark, pg. 20-31.
Book; Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Barry Pearce (Australia); 2000, 15, 73 (colour illus.), 74, 80 (colour illus.), 81 (colour illus., detail), 300, 'Introduction' by Barry Pearce, pg. 10-16; 'Home and abroad' by Ursula Prunster, pg. 73-74.
General/Book; Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook; Bruce James (Australia), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940); 1999, 131 (colour illus.), 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture' by Bruce James, pg. 102-181.
Book; Parade: The story of fashion in Australia; Alexandra Joel; 1998, 65 (colour illus.), 'Towards a New world', pg. 59-75.
Exhibition catalogue; Painted women - Australian artists in Europe at the turn of the century; Anne Gray (Australia, b.1947), Helen Carroll, Ann Galbally (Australia), Janda Gooding, Barbara Kane, Ruth Zubans; 1998, 17, ''Mr and Mrs E Phillips Fox: images of women in the work of Emanuel Phillips Fox and Ethel Carrick Fox' by Ruth Zubans, pg. 15-18.
General/Book; Roy and Matilda - The Golden Locket; Susan Venn; 1994, colour illus.
General/Book; The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections; Ewen McDonald (Australia); 1994, 27 (colour illus.), 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106.
Scholarly/Book; National life and landscape - Australian painting 1900-1940; Ian Burn (Australia; United States of America, b.1939, d.1993); 1990, 56 (colour illus.), 57, 213, 'A land of faded things', pg. 27-60., plate no. 39
Exhibition catalogue; Creating Australia: 200 years of art 1788-1988; Daniel Thomas, Ron Radford (Australia, b.1949); 1988, 8, 166, 167 (colour illus.), 237-238, 245, '"Nature Must be There"' by Mary Eagle, pg.166-167.
General/Book; Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook; Annabel Davie; 1988, 20, 23 (colour illus.), 'Australian' by Barry Pearce, pg. 13-35.
Book; Portrait of a Gallery; Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940), Jan Meek (Australia); 1984, 29 (colour illus.), 'Australian Art in the Old Courts', pg. 24-37.
Scholarly/Book; Australia's national collections; Clem Lloyd, Peter Sekuless; 1980, 258 (colour illus.)
General/Book; Painting; Brian Finemore (Australia, b.1925, d.1975); 1961, 14 (illus.)
Exhibition venue
Title: Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection
Organizer: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Opening: 22 Feb 2002
Closing: May 2003
Curator: Pearce, Barry
Title: E. Phillips Fox Interstate Exhibition
Organizer: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Opening: Mar 1949
Closing: Apr 1949
Notes: cat.no. 16
Title: Pictures by the late E. Phillips Fox
Organizer: Athenaeum Gallery
Venue: Athenaeum Gallery
Opening: 29 Feb 1916
Notes: cat.no. 15; price 300 Guineas
Title: Pictures by E. Phillips Fox (1913)
Organizer: Royal Art Society of New South Wales
Venue: Royal Art Society of New South Wales
Opening: 13 Oct 1913
Closing: 28 Oct 1913
Notes: cat.no. 4; price 300 Guineas
Title: Paris Salon, 1912
Venue: Paris Salon
Opening: 1912
Closing: 1912
Title: Royal Academy of Arts, 1911
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts
Opening: 1911
Closing: 1911
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