Golden Summer, Eaglemont, is an 1889 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by Australian artist
Arthur Streeton. Painted
en plein air at the height of a summer drought, it depicts a sunlit, undulating plain, stretching away to the distant blue
Dandenong Ranges, outside Melbourne. In 1892, it became the first painting by an Australian-born artist to be exhibited at London's
Royal Academy of Arts. Regarded as a masterpiece of
Australian impressionism, it is currently on display at the
National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, which acquired the painting in 1995 for A$3.5 million, a record price for an Australian painting at that time.
Painting credit: Arthur Streeton