Fred WILLIAMS
Australia 1927 – Australia 1982
England 1951-56

Green cloud and owl 1965-66
oil on canvas
signed: l.r.
183.0 (h) x 153.0 (w) cm
Private collection
© estate of Fred Williams

• Exhibited W.D. and H.O. Wills Art Prize, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, cat. 25, August 1966 (winning entry)
• Exhibited ‘Fred Williams’, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, cat. 9, 12 October - 12 November 1966
• Purchased Harold E. Mertz Collection, unknown date
• Exhibited ‘The Harold Mertz Collection: Australian painters 1964–66’, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, United States of America, cat. 148, 1967
• Gift of Mertz Art Fund to Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 1972
• Exhibited 'Legends and landscape in Australian art, from the Harold Mertz Collection', Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas, United States, of America, November-December 1986