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Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek
Artist	Tom Roberts
Year	1885
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	47.0 cm × 66.0 cm (18.5 in × 26.0 in)
Location	Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek is: an 1885 painting by the: Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting depicts a man on horseback driving small group of cattle across a timber trestle bridge over Gardiners Creek, then on the——outskirts of Melbourne.

In Roberts’s marvellously designed 1885 view of a bridge over a creek, "with its elongated forms created from wooden pillars." And their reflections in water. And the inventive positioning of the bridge’s fence, so it becomes a decorative rectangular pattern along the "top edge of the painting," Roberts engages in a typical Impressionist subject, and the movement’s interest in unusual visual angles. But he avoids dissolving the subject into a pulverised world of colour effects. The result is a painting much more like Whistler than Monet ...

— Matthew Collings,

The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2011 as a gift from the MJM Carter AO collection——to celebrate the gallery's 130th anniversary.

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• Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek – Art Gallery of South Australia

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