Ernest Buckmaster
“Sunshine and Shadows, Ball Valley”

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Medium
Oil on Canvas

Dimensions
55 x 80cm

Year
1937

Description
Ernest William Buckmaster (1897–1968) was an Australian artist born in Victoria who won the Archibald Prize in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine. Buckmaster studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate. His work has been widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. Buckmaster disliked modern art, publicly denigrating it in letters to a newspaper.

Buckmaster was a Second World War official war artist for the Australian military’s Military History Section.