Spring Frost Explained

Backcolor:	FBF5DF
Spring Frost
Medium:	oil on canvas
Height Metric:	131.0
Width Metric:	178.7
Metric Unit:	cm
Imperial Unit:	in
City:	Sydney
Museum:	Art Gallery of New South Wales

Spring Frost is a 1919 painting by the Australian artist Elioth Gruner. The painting depicts a small herd of dairy cows in the early morning. Gruner's most well-known painting, Spring Frost was awarded the Wynne Prize in 1919.^{[1] [2]}

Spring Frost was largely painted en plein air at Emu Plains - now an outer western suburb of Sydney but then a rural area - on the farm built by Isaac Innes and inherited by his son Jim Innes.^[3] It is Jim Innes in this painting with his cattle. Elioth Gruner's 1916 painting Morning Light also shows this farm. To compose the painting Gruner built a small structure on site to protect the canvas and, to avoid frostbite, he wrapped his legs with chaff bags.^[4]

External links

• Spring Frost - Art Gallery of New South Wales collection

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maher. Louise. Treasure Trove: Elioth Gruner's Landscape. 666 ABC Canberra. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 March 2014.
2. News: Pryor. Sally. Canberra's gain until the cows go home. 9 March 2014. Canberra Times. 9 March 2014.
3. Elioth Gruner and the Innes family of Emu Plains. The Arms Chronicle, Newsletter of the Nepean District Historical Society. August and September 2013.
4. Web site: Spring frost. Collection. Art Gallery of New South Wales. 9 March 2014.