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Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...
Barbara Tucker, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan, Hurstbridge, c. The Angry Penguin painters are considered to be the major figures of a modernist movement in Australian art, based in Melbourne, which has determined and shaped Australian conte...
Winner of the 2008 Archibald Prize. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. An exhibition of the paintings shortlisted for judging, in conjunction with those shortlisted for the Wynne Prize and the Sulman Prize, is held at the Art Gallery o...
Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbo...
Russell Drysdale, Picture of Donald Friend, 1948. Hill End, a gold-rush town, 85km north of Bathurst in central New South Wales (NSW) is a sacred site in both NSW and also Australian art history. These artists include: John Olsen, Margaret Olley, Jeffre...
The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...
Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...
By the 1930s, modern style flourished in retail, entertainment, pubs, milk bars, modern swimming pools and fashion. Australia’s reception to modernism is a complex story of spasmodic cultural transformation led by avant-garde experiments and the cr...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) Bush 1951 oil on pulpboard signed and dated 'G. Cossington Smith 51' lower left titled and signed verso Macquarie Galleries label verso 45.5 x 34.5cm Proceeds of this lot will be donated to the St Vincent de Paul Society...
Born: 1892 Neutral Bay, Sydney, New South Wales Grace Cossington SMITH Interior with blue painting Grace Cossington SMITH The bridge in-curve ...
TITLE Grace Cossington-Smith AUTHOR HART DESCRIPTION RETAIL $59 (Click here to convert currency) PUBLISHER Thames & HUdson CATEGORY visual art If you would like further info please use our REQUEST FORM to send us email. Alternatively you can CONTACT us ...
In her paintings Grace Cossington Smith acheived a vibrancy of both composition and colour unpararlleled in the Australian modernist movement. On her return to Australia from overseas, she moved to her family home Cossington in Turramurra, a northern sub...
Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Jennifer Phipps, curator of Australian Art (Late Mode...
Grace Cossington Smith s The Bridge in building is a dynamic image of one of Australia s most iconic landmarks under construction. One of a number of artists who recorded the development of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Cossington Smith transformed the scen...
Australia 1892 Australia 1984 UK, Europe 1912-14; UK, Italy 1949-51 1969 oil on composition board 91.5 (h) x 61.0 (w) cm The Mary Turner Collection of Orange Regional Gallery PREVIOUS SCREEN...
ImageCurrentlyUnavailable39000 GraceCOSSINGTON SMITHStudy for The Bridge in-curve Folio of drawings 1930 pencil and coloured pencil on paper[recto]; pencil, pastel, coloured pencil [verso] paper 37.2 (h) x 55.8 (w) cm Recto not signed, not dated. Verso ...
Cossington Smith s meditative late still life paintings are also interiors. In works like Still life with white cup and saucer patterns of leafy foliage through the windows connect with sensuous draperies and everyday objects, suggesting animation in nat...
Australia 1892 Australia 1984 UK, Europe 1912-14; UK, Italy 1949-51 1969 oil on hardboard 91.8 (h) x 61.0 (w) cm Private collection PREVIOUS SCREEN...
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