West Wyalong (Drysdale)

Curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Barry Pearce, stated that it was one of Australia's ten greatest paintings.

It was around about half past six in the evening when everybody’s having tea.Drysdale painted the work at his family home in Rose Bay, a harbourside neighbourhood of Sydney.

[3] A report accompanying an exhibition of his work stated that "Drysdale applied several layers of paint and glaze to render the details with utmost care: the architectural features, cast-iron balconies and posts, the Italianate shopfronts, the blinds lowered against the setting sun".

Landau allowed the work to be displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 1996 when his widow Joyce sold the artwork.

"[6] That deserted country town street, the sun has gone down and there is a light from a single fish and chip shop at the end, probably run by a Greek, and the sky is like this Venetian blue with floating ... looks like something out of Giorgione, or a Titian painting.Bland Shire commissioned a bronze and stainless steel bas-relief sculpture commemorating Drysdale's work.

The view from outside the Tattersalls Hotel in West Wyalong in 2015 - where in 1949 Drysdale drew the sketch of Main Street that would later be used to paint the work
A 2014 Gillie and Marc sculpture commemorating Drysdale and this painting. It stands in front of the Tattersalls Hotel