Down on his luck

"Down on his luck" is oil painting by Frederick McCubbin, dated 1889.

Dense eucalyptus bush and bush-track setting; an iconic Australian bush composition with human scale.

On onlly.art this reproduction sits within the Australian Bushland Landscape collection. Oil painting · 1889 · 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 bush track; pioneer narrative, with the landscape/native vegetation rather than an urban setting as the main subject, so it belongs to the bushland theme.

Frederick McCubbin was an artist associated with Australian (1855–1917).

This page also draws on collection-level information related to Australian Bushland. 17 reproductions by this artist are available on onlly.art.