Grace Cossington Smith b. 20 April 1892

Also known as Grace Smith
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Painter, born in Neutral Bay, Sydney. A student of Dattilo Rubbo, Cossington Smith was quick to absorb modernist ideas and in 1915 exhibited 'The Sock Knitter', described by Daniel Thomas as 'perhaps the first fully Post-Impressionist work painted in Australia'.

Citations

  • Thomas, Daniel (1988), 'Smith, Grace Cossington’.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smith-grace-cossington-8469

  • Johnson, Heather (1988), 'Grace Cossington Smith’, in Heather Radi (ed.), 200 Australian Women, Sydney.

  • James, Bruce (1990), 'Grace Cossington Smith’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1973), 'Grace Cossington Smith’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.11.

  • de Berg, Hazel, 'Interview with Grace Cossington Smith’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, Oral history tapes.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1973), 'Grace Cossington Smith’, Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1993), 'Grace Cossington Smith : A Life from drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia’, Canberra, ACT : National Gallery of Australia.

  • (1928), Art in Australia, Sydney, NSW.

  • Speck, Catherine (1999), 'Power Dressing: Women in the Military’, Australian Journal of Art, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 149-163.?.

  • Speck, Catherine, '[PhD on Women Artists and War]’, (which discusses her war cartoons).

  • Speck, Catherine (1995), 'Re-reading Women’s War Art: The Art of Grace Cossington Smith’, Art Association of Australia National Conference, September, University of Western Sydney.

  • de Watteville, H. (1961), 'John Denton Pinkstone French’, Dictionary of National Biographies, Oxford, England, UK : Oxford University Press, pp 319-325.

  • Information sourced from Eagle, Mary.

  • Hart, Deborah (ed.) (2005), 'Grace Cossington Smith’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • Speck, Catherine (2004), 'Painting ghosts : Australian women artists in wartime’, St Leonards, NSW : Craftsman House.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archives’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Heritage: ADD section 6, plate 250'.
  • 'An elaborate oil self-portrait was acquired by the NLA in 1999'.
  • 'Grace Cossington Smith, Self Portrait c.1945, pencil and coloured pencil (Cruthers collection, Perth)'.
  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions