Australian Art

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Australian Art Early Modernism 1919-1939
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Australia felt the enormous impact of World War 1
out of the 400,000 men who went to Europe to
fight the war, 60,000 did not return. The war
broke out in the declining years of the
Heidelberg School. The war was a fundamental
event in Australias history and in the formation
of a national Consciousness.
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Women Artists and Modernism During this period,
women artists came to the fore. As a result of
the two world wars, the absence of a large
portion of the male population and subsequent
extension of responsibilities, women gained an
independence and confidence that they carried
into the art world, becoming more experimental
and adapting to new styles, techniques and
materials. Women artists played a significant
role in the development of Australian modernism.
The increase in the recognition and activities of
women artists was a reflection of the growing
independence and emancipation of women. Female
artists travelled and studied overseas. Many
female artists chose not to marry because of the
possibility of conflict between family life and
their art studies.
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Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984)
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Grace Cossington Smith, The Sock Knitter,
1915 Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 cm
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Grace Cossington Smith, Self Portrait, c1918 oil
on canvas on board, 26 x 21 cm
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Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in Curve,
1926Tempera on composition board83.8cm x
111.8cm, NGV
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Grace Cossington Smith, The Curve of the Bridge,
1928-1929 oil on cardboard
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Grace Cossington Smith, Eastern Road Turramurra,
1926 Oil on board, Australian National Gallery
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Grace Cossington Smith, The Lacquer Room, 1935-36
Oil on paperboard on plywood, 74 x 90.8 cm
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Grace Crowley(1890-1951)
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Grace Crowley, Girl with goats, 1928 Oil on
canvas, 54 x 72.7 cm
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Grace Crowley, Gwen Ridley, 1930 Oil on canvas on
board, 72 x 53 cm
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Grace Crowley, Abstract, 1951 Oil on cardboard,
69 x 91 cm
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
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Dorrit Black, The Bridge, 1930 Oil on canvas on
board, 60 x 81 cm
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Dorrit Black, Coast Road, 1942Oil on composition
board, 45.5 x 55 cm
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Dorrit Black, The olive plantation, 1946 oil on
canvas, 63.5 x 86.5 cm
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Dorrit Black, The Castle, c 1940 Lino cut
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Thea Proctor (1879-1966)
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Thea Proctor, The balcony, c.1919 Lithograph
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Thea Proctor, Bookplate, 1927 Woodcut
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Thea Proctor, Frangipani, 1928 Woodcut, 28 x 22
cm
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Thea Proctor, The Rose, c1928 woodcut, hand
coloured with gouache 22.2 x 20.8 cm
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Margaret Preston (1875-1963)
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Margaret Preston, Waratahs, 1925 woodcut,
hand-coloured
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Margaret Preston, Basket of Australian flowers,
1925 Woodcut, hand coloured
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Margaret Preston Implement Blue, 1927 Oil on
canvas on paperboard, 42.5 x 43 cm
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Margaret Preston, Aboriginal Flowers, 1928 Oil
on canvas, 53.6 x 45.8 cm
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Margaret Preston, West Australian banksias, 1929
Woodcut, hand coloured
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Roland Wakelin (1887-1971)
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Roland Wakelin, A Tasmanian LandscapeOil on
linen on board, 40 x 53 cm
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Roland Wakelin, Wellington Rooftops, c1913oil on
board, 73x52 cm
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Roland Wakelin, The Bridge under Construction, c
1928-29 Oil on canvas on board, 101.2 x 121.6 cm
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Roy de Maistre (or Roi de Mestre) (1894-1968)
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Roy De Maistre, Rhythmic composition in yellow
green Minor, 1919 Oil on cardboard, 83.4 x 116.2
cm
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Roy de Maistre, Berry's Bay, Sydney Harbour,
1920 oil on board, 24.0 x 33.0 cm
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Roy de Maistre, A painted picture of the
Universe, 1920-34 Oil on board, National Gallery
of Victoria