''Waterfall, Strath Creek'' is an 1862

oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...

by Austrian artist Eugene von Guerard. The work is in the collection of the

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...

and was purchased in 1967. It depicts Strath Creek Falls, a waterfall located in the Mount Disappointment State Forest in the Australian state of Victoria. A 1980 painting ''A waterfall (Strath Creek)'' by Australian artist William Delafield Cook that won that year's

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identified the painting's influence as "I found the spot where he had sat to do his drawing … The waterfall was almost exactly as it was in von Guérard's picture. He was at Strath Creek on 14 January 1862; I was there 23 January 1980." A 1989 work by artist Imants Tillers titled ''Untitled (Deaf)'' used ''Waterfall, Strath Creek'' to address "the vexed issue of Australian identity"

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