Mt Barney, Queensland, c.2000

Mt Barney, Queensland, c.2000

Oil on canvas
76 x 121.5 cm
Framed: 91.4 x 137.2 cm
Signed ‘Rigby’ lower left & undated

Comments: Mt Barney, Queensland’s fourth highest peak located near the QLD/NSW border and within a World Heritage listed area, was a feature that John Rigby knew well from childhood and painted over the decades.

In the late 1920s/early 1930s, the Rigby family lived in nearby Palen Creek where his father worked at a sawmill as a steam engineer and saw doctor.