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Modern
Australian Women:
paintings and prints 1925-1945
7 September - 21 October 2001
Presented at the S H Ervin Gallery by the Commonwealth
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An Art Gallery of South Australia travelling exhibition.
Supported by Marsh, Visions of Australia
and Australian Women's Weekly
THE HISTORY
Intoxicated by European and British modernism, a number of Australian
women artists in the 1920s pioneered a unique Australian art movement
which was adventurous and unconventional.
ARTISTS AND INFLUENCES
Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Nora Heysen, Thea Proctor, Kathleen
O'Connor, Grace Crowley, Dorrit Black, Clarice Beckett, Ethel Spowers
and many others are included in this exhibition. The reverberations through
the decades of these intrepid women artists' artwork has affected audiences
and artists alike.
CELEBRATING LESSER KNOWN WOMEN ARTISTS
Freda Robertshaw, Stella Bowen, Ethel Carrick, Sybil Craig, Ann Dangar,
Kathleen Sauerbier, Eveline Syme and more.
WHAT IS THE LINK WITH THE S H ERVIN GALLERY?
The S H Ervin Gallery is renowned for its encouragement and acknowledgement
of women artists through major retrospective exhibitions such as Kathleen
O'Connor, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague and our annual Portia Geach Memorial
Award for women artists. The S H Ervin Gallery is proud to continue this
tradition of celebration.
Contact: Prue Davidson for essay on the exhibition and images
$8/$4 concession
Ph 9258 0150
Fax 9251 4355
pdavidson@nsw.nationaltrust.org.au
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