His early - 20th - century landscapes based on his travels through the Flinders Ranges helped establish a national iconography of arid hills and gnarled gum trees aflutter with roseate cockatoos.
The scenery is as persistent as the local flies: a breathtakingly silent expanse of parched grasses clinging to cracked clays and dunes, dotted with gumtrees, acacias and gnarled shrubs.