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LLoyd Rees Lookout 2 : Feb 2014
LLoyd Rees Lookout 2 : Feb 2014

Photographs supplied by Peter F Williams

The lookout commemorates landscape artist Lloyd Rees who lived and worked in the area.

Lloyd Frederic Rees AC CMG (17 March 1895 – 2 December 1988) was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings.

Location

Address:Middle Street, Lloyd Rees Lookout , McMahons Point, 2060
State:NSW
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -33.848068
Long: 151.204362
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Structure
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Arts
Link:http://adb.anu.edu.au/

Dedication

Approx. Monument Dedication Date:1996
Front Inscription

LLOYD REES LOOKOUT

Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) artist and one of Sydney's finest landscape painters, lived and worked in the McMahons Point area from 1931 to 1934. He lived with his wife, Marjory, first at "Moana", 51 East Crescent Street and then at "Keanah", 26 East Crescent Street.

The drawings of Sydney Harbour and the surrounding neighbourhood of McMahons Point helped to establish his reputation as an artist. He returned to work here in the 1940s and 1950s and his Wynne Prize-winning painting The Harbour from McMahons Point is of the view from this spot.

This Lookout honours his name and the time he spent on this side of the Harbour creating an important pictorial record of our changing landscape.

North Sydney Council

North Shore Historical Society 1996.

Source: MA, ADB
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