George A. Kenyon

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  • Artist (Painter)
George A. Kenyon worked as a miner at Mount Alexander and Forest Creek in Castlemaine, Victoria. He is responsible for a series of naive watercolours depicting scenes from the goldfields in the 1850s.
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sketcher and miner, was mining at Mount Alexander and Forest Creek in Castlemaine, Victoria in 1851-52. A group of naive goldfields watercolours he made several years later depict the Ovens district as it was at that time. Mount Alexander 1851 (1861, LT SLV), Commissioners Camp, Forest Creek 1852 (1861, CAG), Gold Diggers at Castlemaine (1855, LT SLV), Forest Creek, 1852 (1861, LT SLV) and The Black Forest 1852 (1857 and 1859, LT SLV) include crudely drawn but lively miners with picks, shovels and puddling tools at work on these alluvial fields. Kenyon also painted a watercolour view of Canvas Town, South Melbourne 1852 (LT SLV), so obviously returned to Melbourne that year.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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Related works
  • The Black Forest 1852 (creator of)
  • Forest Creek 1852 (creator of)
  • Gold Diggers at Castlemaine (creator of)
  • Commissioners Camp, Forest Creek 1852 (creator of)
  • Mount Alexander 1851 (creator of)
  • Canvas Town, South Melbourne 1852 (creator of)
Related collections
  • Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, Vic. (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)