| Storm Approaching Wangi | |
| Artist: | William Dobell |
| Year: | 1948 |
| Medium: | oil on cardboard on composition board |
| Height Metric: | 32.5 |
| Width Metric: | 55.5 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Private collection |
Storm Approaching Wangi is a 1948 painting by Australian artist Sir William Dobell. The painting depicts a storm at Wangi Wangi, New South Wales.[1]
The Art Gallery of New South Wales awarded the work the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 1948.[2] Dobell was awarded the Archibald Prize that same year for his portrait of artist Margaret Olley. Dobell painted the work after retiring to Wangi Wangi following the controversy over his portrait Mr Joshua Smith which was the subject of a court challenge after it was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1943.
Gallery director Mark Widdup described the painting as "one of the most important landscape works of the 20th century."[3]
Dobell sold the work to Frank and Thelma Clune in 1948. It was then sold to a corporate collection in 1991. The work was most recently sold in 2016 for AUD408,700 to a private collector.[4]