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'.
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Turramurra Wall Painters Union
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Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
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  • Project 21: Women's Images of Women (exhibited at)
  • Australian Women Artists, One Hundred Years 1840 -1940 (exhibited at)
  • Grace Cossington Smith: A Life from drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia (exhibited at)
  • The Australian Landscape (exhibited at)
  • retrospective exhibition (exhibited at)
  • [18 solo exhibitions] (exhibited at)
  • Royal Art Society annual exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950 (exhibited at)
  • Grace Cossington Smith: the lacquer room (exhibited at)
  • Grace Cossington Smith retrospective (exhibited at)
  • Review (exhibited at)
  • Eveolution: An exhibition of women's art from the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection (exhibited at)
  • A l'hombre des jeunes filles et des fleurs: In the shadow of young girls and flowers (exhibited at)
  • Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel (exhibited at)
  • In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection (exhibited at)
  • Women and Art (exhibited at)
  • Women hold up half the sky (exhibited at)
  • The Women's View: Australian women artists in the Bendigo Art Gallery, 1888-1995 (exhibited at)
  • Look, Look Again (exhibited at)
  • Exhibition of paintings by women artists (exhibited at)
  • Exhibition of Australian women painters (exhibited at)
  • Modern Australian Women: paintings and prints 1925-1945 (exhibited at)
  • BRAG 200x200 (exhibited at)
  • Women Painters: 1st Annual Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Project 21: Women's Images of Women (exhibited at)