Artists

After Emanuel Phillips Fox

Australian, 1865-1915

Emanuel Philips Fox’s art is grounded in nature and styled in the French Impressionist methods of plein-air painting. When interviewed in Melbourne before his 1913 exhibition at the Athenaeum, he said, ‘In art everything must start from the springboard of nature. One may treat nature realistically, decoratively, or as a basis for the expression of ideas, but nature must be there.’