Australian Art Association. McCubbin died in 1917 from a heart attack. Legacy In 1998 McCubbin's painting Bush Idyll (1893) sold for $2,312,500, a then-record price for an Australian painting at public auction. Widely considered to be amongst the finest paintings in Australian art history, Bush Idyll was on long term display in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra between 2017 and 2020 and between late 2021 and early 2022 it formed part of the key retrospective, 'Frederick McCubbin - Whisperings in wattle boughs" at the Geelong Gallery, Geelong. On 25 February 2005, the 150th anniversary of his birth, the premiere of McCubbin: A Musical Biography of Frederick McCubbin by Peter Burgess was staged at Federation Square, Melbourne. On 22 March 2016, McCubbin's painting An Old Politician (1879), resurfaced from a private vault in an Australian bank. The painting has not been viewed in public exhibition since its sale to a private collector in the 1880s. McCubbin's letters to Tom Roberts, from the period 1891-1916, are held in the State Library of New South Wales. Works "McCubbin creates an engulfing, claustrophobic landscape by barely suggesting any horizon and compressing midground and background. In contrast, the bush folk are portrayed as heroic figures." See also :Category:Paintings by Frederick McCubbin Visual arts of Australia References Bibliography Thomas, David. 1986. "McCubbin, Frederick (Fred) (1855–1917)," Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 10. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press. ; OCLC 59254986 External links Australian government website on McCubbin, source of most of the material for this article Frederick McCubbin at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917) Gravesite at Brighton General Cemetery Frederick McCubbin on Picture Australia Landscape Frederick McCubbin early history 1855 births 1917 deaths Heidelberg School Australian people of Scottish descent 19th-century Australian painters 19th-century Australian male artists 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian male artists Australian landscape painters Australian male painters Artists from Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni