Golden Summer, Eaglemont

"Golden Summer, Eaglemont" by Arthur Streeton (1889) is a notable landscape painting created en plein air during a summer drought. At just 21 years old, Streeton aimed to craft his most ambitious work, capturing the sunlit, undulating plains extending from his Eaglemont artists' camp to the distant Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne. The artwork exemplifies a naturalistic yet poetic style, employing Streeton’s distinctive high-keyed Impressionism palette of blues and golds, which he believed represented nature's scheme of colour in Australia.