Canberra in winter

After visiting the site of the future capital in the winter of 1913 Walter Burley Griffin evoked the paintings of the American landscape painter George Inness he remembered from the Art Institute of Chicago. In an interview Griffin said Inness ‘would catch scenes of storm cloud or sunset glow, or mountain view, and the changing colour and mood, and especially the atmosphere after a storm. That atmosphere is just what they have up there in Canberra, particularly in the morning and evening. The clearness of it brings everything right up to you, and it divides our distances right in two’.