The spirit of the drought

"The spirit of the drought" is oil painting by Arthur Streeton, dated 1895.

Dry, atmospheric Australian country; expands the bushland theme into drought and climatic character.

On onlly.art this reproduction sits within the Australian Bushland Landscape collection. Oil painting · 1895 · medium: Oil painting. The work is associated with the Australian Bushland collection. In Australian usage, “the bush” includes non-urban native and rural country, not only dense forest. This scene is dominated by drought; dry landscape, with the landscape/native vegetation rather than an urban setting as the main subject, so it belongs to the bushland theme.

Arthur Streeton was an artist associated with Australian (1867–1943).

This page also draws on collection-level information related to Australian Bushland. 25 reproductions by this artist are available on onlly.art.