Quality colour art gallery print created during the 1970s after Australian artist Thomas Gleghorn’s painting "Summer Landscape" (1958). Striking mid-century abstract expressionist artwork exploring colours and textures within the Australian bush. Solid wood dark green frame with custom double black mount behind glass. Excellent condition! 75cm X 59cm frame 46cm x 35cm artwork Thomas Gleghorn (1925-) began exhibiting in Sydney from 1954. His first solo exhibition of paintings was held at Newcastle Art Gallery in 1959. The show was opened by an admirer and collector of Gleghorn’s paintings, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Patrick White. Since then, Gleghorn has held more than 50 solo exhibitions and been included in numerous group exhibitions. For almost 50 years, Gleghorn consistently won a multitude of art prizes including over 30 major awards between 1957 and 1973. He was the inaugural winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize in 1958 and won both the Mosman Art Prize and the Blake Prize that same year as well as being included in the Tokyo Print Biennale in 1960. Gleghorn was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the arts as a painter and teacher in 2006. Gleghorn describes himself as “an ordinary man who has chosen painting as something to do”, but he is considered one of Australia’s finest and most influential abstract expressionists.
