The Drover's Wife is an oil painting on canvas executed in 1945 by Australian artist Russell Drysdale.

It depicts a flat, barren landscape with a woman in a plain dress in the foreground.

[1] The painting has been described as "an allegory of the white Australian people's relationship with this ancient land.

"[1] Henry Lawson's 1892 short story "The Drover's Wife" is widely seen as an inspiration for the painting, although Drysdale denies that.

[2] The painting is now part of the collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.