Name: Hill End
Brand: Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (1915-1989)
Price: 700.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (1915-1989)
Hill End
signed and dated 'Hill End. Donald '47' (upper right)
pen, wash and ink on paper
9 3/8 x 10½in. (23.7 x 26.7cm.)
13 7/8 x 15in. (35.2 x 38.1cm.) including frame

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Lot Essay

Tiring of Sydney in the latter half of 1947, and after reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about forgotten mining towns in central New South Wales, Friend and Drysdale visited Sofala and Hill End. In September 1947 Friend and fellow artist Donald Murray purchased a cottage in Hill End a short walk from the general store and only pub. The town would become an artists' colony, Margaret Olley, Jeffrey Smart, David Strachan, John Olsen, Brett Whiteley and Michael Johnson all subsequently painting there. The best preserved of the New South Wales gold rush towns, it was declared a historic site in 1967.