Fred Williams
select available works
1927 Born, Melbourne
1943-47 Attended National Gallery
School
1946-50 Attended George Bell
Art School, Melbourne
1951-56 Travelled to London, worked as framer and attended
part-time Chelsea School of Art & Central Art School
1957 Returned to Australia
1961 Married Lyn Watson
1963 Moved to Upwey
1964 Travelled to Europe on Helena Rubenstein Scholarship
1969 Moved to Hawthorn
1972-74 Member, Commonwealth Art Advisory Board
1973-76 Member, Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
1975-82 Trustee, Council of the National Gallery of Australia
1976 Awarded OBE
1980 Awarded Doctorate of Law, LL.D (Honoris Causa) by
Monash University
1982 Died, Melbourne
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1970 Heroic Landscape: Streeton to Williams, NGV
1971 Fred Williams Watercolours, QAG & Newcastle
Art Gallery
1972 Fred Williams Retrospective, Mornington Peninsula
Arts Centre
1973 Adelaide Festival Theatre Murals, Festival
Theatre, Adelaide
1974-75 Ten Australians, Australia Council touring show,
France, Italy, W.Germany, Great Britain, and AGNSW
1977 Paintings 1963-77, Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane
Fred Williams – Landscapes of a Continent,
MoMA, New York; toured Florida, Nebraska,
Texas
1978 Fred Williams, Paintings, Gouaches & Lithographs
1976 – 1978 Touring exhibition, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne,
Sydney
1980 Fred Williams 1969-79, Australian Embassy,
Paris Fischer Fine Art, London
Fred Williams, Works in the National Gallery
of Victoria,
NGV
1981 ; Fred Williams: Painter/Etcher, NGA
1981-82 Fred Williams: Bass Strait Landscapes 1971-78, toured
Tasmanian and Victorian galleries
1983-84 Fred Williams: The Pilbara Series, CRA touring
show, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo
1987-89 Fred Williams: A Retrospective, National
Gallery of Australia & tour of all State
Galleries
1988 Fred Williams: The Pilbara Series, CRA touring
show, London, Ulster, Belfast, Kilkenny
1994 Fred Williams: Etchings 1970-76 & The Guthega
Paintings, Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne
1995 Fred Williams: A Working Method, NGV
1996 Fred Williams: The Queensland Gouaches, Gold
Coast City Art Gallery, and tour of 5 regional galleries, Queensland
1999 Fred Williams: Drawing the Exotic, Museum
of Modern Art at Heide
2000 Fred Williams Pilbara Series, Ian
Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2000-01 The Enduring Landscape: Gouaches by Fred Williams
(from the collection of the NGV), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2001 From Music Hall to Landscape, Fred Williams
Drawings and Prints, AGNSW
2001 Fred Williams landscapes 1959 – 1981, Monash
University
2001 Fred Williams drawing the nude, Museum
of Modern Art at Heide
Including those listed above, there have been over 70 solo exhibitions
since 1957.
Select Solo Exhibitions