Peggie (or Peggy) Crombie (1901–1984) was an Australian modernist painter. She was born in 1901 in Melbourne. In 1921, she commenced her art studies at Stott’s Commercial Art Training Institute and continued from 1922 to 1928, at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne, under the tutelage of Lindsay Bernard Hall, William Beckwith McInnes, and George Bell.
Throughout her career, Crombie exhibited her work with various modernist groups in Melbourne, including The Embryos, the 1932 Group, the New Art Club, the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Victorian Artists Society. Sybil Craig painted her portrait in 1932 and it is held in the National Gallery of Victoria. She died in 1984.
- Writers:
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James McArdle
- Date written:
- 2023
- Last updated:
- 2023
