CANBERRA.-The painting depicts two monumental gum trees before a sweeping pastoral vista. The grand old tree in the foreground is said to have been a favourite of Heysen’s. He was particularly enamoured of mornings light and was always up before dawn in order to catch the changing landscape in early sunlight, such as the effect of a cool morning depicted in Morning light. “We are indebted to Ms Robertson for the wonderful legacy of almost $3million that she has left the National Gallery of Australia. Her bequest has already enabled us to make significant acquisitions such as Heysen’s Morning light and will continue to do so in the future,” said Ron Radford AM, Director of the National Gallery of Australia. “It is extraordinary that the National Gallery of Australia held no major iconic gum tree oil painting by Heysen from the federation period to the