Which famous Australian painting by Tom Roberts depicts a shearing shed?

Answer 1

Shearing the Rams by famous Australian painting by Tom Roberts which 1888 first large-scale sketch depicts six men hunched over in a zipper-like pattern extending towards the back of a narrow side room belonging a large shearing shed. The 1890 final version of Shearing the Rams depicts much of the same scene, but the few changes that Roberts did make clearly reflect the labor movement tensions that occupied much of the two years that he spent working on the painting. The hostility had become more heated and the strikes more prolific, so naturally his art followed the sentiments (“Turbulent Times”).

Shearing the Rams, based on a visit to a sheep station (large farm) at Brocklesby in southern New South Wales, depicted the wool industry that had been Australia's first export industry and a staple of rural life.

English born Tom Roberts (Thomas William Roberts - 8 March 1856 - 14 September 1931), who emigrated with his family to Australia in 1869 was a famous Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.♥

Answer 2

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