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1892 Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia - 1984 Neutral Bay, Sydney, Australia. Known for: Post-impressionist landscape, still life, and interior painting.
Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are... Read full biography
Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia. She was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of... Read full biography
Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia. She was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of London-born solicitor Ernest Smith and his wife Grace, née Fisher who was the daughter of the rector of Cossington in Leicestershire. The family moved to Thornleigh, New South Wales... Read full biography
Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia. She was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of London-born solicitor Ernest Smith and his wife Grace, née Fisher who was the daughter of the rector of Cossington in Leicestershire. The family moved to Thornleigh, New South Wales around 1890. Grace attended Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga 1905-09 where Albert Collins and Alfred Coffey took art classes. From 1910-11 she studied drawing with Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. From 1912-14 she and her sister lived in England,... Read full biography
Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia. She was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of London-born solicitor Ernest Smith and his wife Grace, née Fisher who was the daughter of the rector of Cossington in Leicestershire. The family moved to Thornleigh, New South Wales around 1890. Grace attended Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga 1905-09 where Albert Collins and Alfred Coffey took art classes. From 1910-11 she studied drawing with Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. From 1912-14 she and her sister lived in England, staying with an aunt at Winchester where she attended drawing classes as well as classes at Speck in Germany, and was exposed... Read full biography
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Grace Cossington Smith was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia.
She was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of London-born solicitor Ernest Smith and his wife Grace, née Fisher who was the daughter of the rector of Cossington in Leicestershire. The family moved to Thornleigh, New South Wales around 1890. Grace attended Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga 1905-09 where Albert Collins and Alfred Coffey took art classes. From 1910-11 she studied drawing with Antonio Dattilo Rubbo. From 1912-14 she and her s...But wait, there's more...
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