Historical information
CEMA Art Collection
Winner of 1962 Portland Artists' Society Prize for the category Painting.
Included in the 1999 "Salvage" Exhibition at CEMA Arts Centre.
Physical description
The painting depicts several trees on a multi-coloured ground with mountains in the background. The trees in the foreground are linear and completed in shades of browns and pinks. The work has a white, gold and blue hand-painted frame with exposed canvas.
Inscriptions & markings
Front: Werther '62 (bottom right, brown paint)
Back: PORTLAND
"DEAD WATTLES"
40 GNS
FRANK WERTHER
COTTLES BRIDGE VIC
per
MAYNE NICKLESS (white chalk)
Red sticker: 32
Yellow sticker: 1962
