b'511JANE SUTHERLAND (18531928)Girls picking blackberries,pastel and gouache on board,signed lower right,23.5 x 29.5cmSutherland was a landscape painter who was part of thethe men at the campsites overnight, and instead made day pioneering plein-air movement in Australia, and a member ofjourneys to the campsites.the Heidelberg School. Her advocacy for the advancementSutherlands body of work mainly focused on Australian of the professional standing of female artists during thelandscapes, with the inclusion of women and children late nineteenth century was also a notable achievement.interacting with nature. Narrative is suggestive in her works Sutherland was the leading female artist in the group ofas she leaves an impression of the land and her figures turn Melbourne painters who worked outside the studio; sheaway from the viewer. Despite her efforts and success, took plein-air sketching trips to the outlying rural districtsSutherland found difficulties in being considered a serious of Alphington, Templestowe and Box Hill with her maleand professional artist. Sutherland was forced to price her contemporaries of the Heidelberg School. Unlike herpaintings at a tenth of the value of her male peers. Very few contemporaries, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Charlesare held in private collections.Conder, Sutherland, as a female, was unable to stay with$3,0005,000'