and his brother Norman. Long's greatest triumph in this style was The Spirit of the Plains (1897), using the flowing patterns and pastel colours of Art Nouveau to create a poetic vision of the Australian bush as the incongruous setting for a naked Grecian wood-nymph leading a procession of dancing brolgas. "Synthesising shimmering visual form, mythological subject and musical allusion Long established his vision of landscape as a dream-like, poetic formulation." Another example of this style is his work depicting the mythological god Pan (1898) which was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. These works painted after 1897 were extremely popular, and provided the money to allow him to fulfill his dream of studying in London after 1910. He studied printmaking at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and was taught etching by Frank Emanuel and Malcolm Osborne. His post-1910 work retained only the faintest lingerings of the earlier Australian poetic landscapes. There is an excellence in etchings which can be found in 'Young Kookaburras' 1925, examples of which are located at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and a private collection in Doreen, Victoria. A major exhibition of Long's works was held by the National Gallery of Australia from 17 August to 11 November 2012. See also Visual arts of Australia References External links Sydney Long at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney Long at the Australian Dictionary of Biography written by Joanna Mendelssohn 1986 Australian painters 1871 births 1955 deaths Australian bird artists Art Nouveau painters People from Goulburn Symbolist painters