Sam Fullbrook: Delicate Beauty

by Angela Goddard

One of Australia’s most influential postwar painters, Sam Fullbrook was a highly skilled colourist and tonalist, variously described as a classical artist, a painter’s painter and an art outsider. Admired by the public, critics and artists alike, Fullbrook’s works are absorbing and ambiguous, evocative and timeless. Published in association with the exhibition ‘Sam Delicate Beauty’, this catalogue features some of Fullbrook’s most important portraits — including Ernestine Hill 1970, one of the Queensland Art Gallery’s most beloved paintings — landscapes and racetrack paintings, with a focus on works produced when the artist resided in south-east Queensland. Beautifully illustrated and featuring an interview with the artist by John Cruthers, Sam Delicate Beauty is the first substantial publication of the intimate and highly individual works of Sam Fullbrook to be produced by a state gallery in almost two decades.

86 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2014