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Moody's pub

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Type
  
oil on plywood

Year
  
1941

Artist
  
Russell Drysdale

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Dimensions
  
50.9 cm × 61.4 cm (20.0 in × 24.2 in)

Location
  
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Similar
  
The cricketers, Sofala, The Drover's Wife, West Wyalong

Moody's pub is a 1941 painting by Australian artist Russell Drysdale. The painting depicts a pub in the Victorian town of Seymour.

The painting has been described as "one of Drysdale's most celebrated paintings and among the most frequently reproduced images of twentieth-century Australian art."

The National Gallery of Victoria acquired the work in 1942; its first acquisition of a Drysdale painting.

References

Moody's pub Wikipedia