Gerald Fitzgerald (1873–1935) was an Australian artist who painted primarily in

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

. He was born in Sydney on 31 March 1873, the seventh of eight children born to Robert David Fitzgerald and his wife Emily (nee Hunt). He commonly painted scenes of the

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south coast and Blue Mountains, and regularly exhibited with art societies in Australia and New Zealand commencing with the Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of NSW in 1894. In 1898 three of his works were chosen for inclusion in the

Exhibition of Australian Art in London The Exhibition of Australian Art in London was a show organised by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), notably Julian Ashton, and financially supported by the philanthropist Eadith Walker. Held at London's Grafton Galleri ...

. He is represented in the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and the

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. Fitzgerald died in Sydney on 8 February 1935.

Gallery

File:KIPPILAW, LEURA (1925).jpg, Kippilaw, Leura (1923). File:A LONELY CORNER (1894).jpg, A Lonely Corner (1894).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzgerald, Gerald 1873 births 1935 deaths 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian male artists 19th-century Australian painters 19th-century Australian male artists Australian watercolourists Australian male painters