Grace Crowley b. 28 May 1890

Also known as Grace Adela Williams Crowley
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and resident of Sydney, New South Wales. She started her own school with ex-student Rah Fizelle which during its five-year existence the school became a focus for modern art in Sydney.

Citations

  • Thomas, Daniel (October 1966), 'Project 4: Grace Crowley’, article in AGNSWQ October 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales cat. 1975, .

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Australian Women Artists 1840-1940’, Collingwood, Vic : [Entry taken largely from].

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Crowley, Grace, 'Grace Crowley’s Student Years’, Artist’s reminiscences (published Burke).

  • McCulloch, Alan; and McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1993), 'Crowley, Grace Adela Williams (1890 – 1979)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, [Ritchie, John (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

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See also

  • 'Section 2, plate 77'.
  • 'Self-portrait with Rake 1962, pencil (formerly in the col. of Daniel Thomas, offered Christie's Australian and European Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Ceramics, Part II, Melbourne 30 April 1997, cat.230 (ill.); Grace Crowley, photograph by Judith Fletcher.'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book