Moody's pub
(1941)
- Medium
- oil on plywood
- Measurements
- 50.9 × 61.4 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Vaucluse, Sydney, New South Wales
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: Russell Drysdale
- Accession Number
- 1147-4
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1942
© Courtesy Russell Drysdale Estate
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Moody’s pub is one of Russell Drysdale’s most celebrated paintings and among the most frequently reproduced images of twentieth-century Australian art. Based on the Royal Hotel on the Hume Highway at Seymour, the painting evokes Drysdale’s particular sense of humour in its observation of events from everyday life. A group of laconic country men are shown standing with hands on hips or dangling at their sides. As one of Drysdale’s earliest paintings of a street in an outback town, and the first painting by the artist acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, Moody’s pub rapidly achieved iconic status.
- Subjects (general)
- Cityscapes Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- automobiles men (male humans) pubs roads street scenes verandah (exterior covered spaces)
