“A holiday at Mentone” by Charles Conder, depicts a beach in the Melbourne suburb of Mentone on a bright and sunny day. Conder’s depiction of people engaged in seaside activities and the brilliant noonday sunshine mark the painting as distinctively Australian. The painting was first exhibited in 1888 when Conder was aged only twenty years old.
The work shows evidence of being influenced by Japanese art, while a similar bridge motif was commonly used by the influential American painter James McNeil Whistler. This painting is considered Conder’s best-known painting and has been described as a masterpiece of the Australian Impressionist style of painting.
Charles Edward Conder was a painter, lithographer, and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art.
A Holiday at Mentone
- Title: A Holiday at Mentone
- Artist: Charles Conder
- Year: 1888
- Medium: oil on cardboard
- Dimensions: 46.2 cm × 60.8 cm (18.2 in × 23.9 in)
- Museum: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Charles Edward Conder
- Artist: Charles Edward Conder
- Born: 1868 – Tottenham, Middlesex
- Died: 1909 (aged 40)
- Nationality: Australian
- Major Paintings:
- A Holiday at Mentone
- Dandenongs from Heidelberg
- Hot Wind
A Tour of the Art Gallery of South Australia
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- “A break away!” by Tom Roberts
- “A Holiday at Mentone” by Charles Conder
- “Dandenongs from Heidelberg” by Charles Conder
- “A Summer Morning” by Rupert Bunny
- “Circe Invidiosa” by John William Waterhouse
- “The Favorites of the Emperor Honorius” by John William Waterhouse
- Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer
A Tour of Museums in Australia
- Museums in Sydney
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Australian Museum
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Museum of Sydney
- Powerhouse Museum
- Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
- Nicholson Museum
- Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum
- Museum of Fire
- Museums in Melbourne
- National Gallery of Victoria
- Melbourne Museum
- Shrine of Remembrance
- Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
- State Library of Victoria
- National Sports Museum
- Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
- Old Melbourne Gaol
- Chinese Museum, Melbourne
- Jewish Museum of Australia
- Museums in Canberra
- National Museum of Australia
- National Gallery of Australia
- Australian War Memorial
- National Portrait Gallery
- Museums in Brisbane
- Queensland Art Gallery
- Queensland Museum & Science Centre
- MacArthur Museum Brisbane
- RD Milns Antiquities Museum
- Queensland Maritime Museum
- Commissariat Store, Brisbane
- Queensland Police Museum
- Museums in Perth
- Art Gallery of Western Australia
- WA Shipwrecks Museum
- Perth Mint
- WA Maritime Museum
- Fremantle Prison
- Museums in Adelaide
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- South Australian Museum
- Migration Museum, Adelaide
- Museums in Hobart
- Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- Museums in Darwin
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
- Darwin Military Museum
- Australian Aviation Heritage Centre
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Australia is just so full of surprises.
– Bill Bryson
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Photo Credits: 1) Charles Conder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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